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...family life at what is now the Roosevelt Campobello Park. James, a business consultant, recalled that "when we were small and lived here, we didn't have any electricity and we didn't have any telephone." Franklin, a businessman and farmer, remembered that their mother liked to buy Wedgwood in the neighboring village. None, somehow, spoke at first of the overpowering father figure for whom the sun set at Campobello when he contracted polio and then rose again when he hobbled away-from it and them-to become the only four-term U.S. President...
Brennan did not address the issue, but it is clear that the EEOC can obtain court-ordered affirmative action, including quotas, if it proves past discrimination. Most affirmative-action programs exist because employers cannot get federal contracts without them. Last week the Government said it would no longer buy from Uniroyal, charging that the company had balked at setting up an affirmative-action program for women. Uniroyal is only the 21st company to be so penalized in 15 years, but it is the biggest-with $35 million in outstanding Government contracts...
...Peter C. Wilson was astonished at the frenetic pace of the bidding, which often drove prices three or four times as high as most dealers had expected. A pair of Louis XV corner cabinets went for $608,920, and a folio cabinet fetched $655,760. But the most breathtaking buy was a garishly ornate Louis XV corner cabinet. The contenders were two agents working for anonymous buyers and Art Dealer Andrew Ciechanowieski of London's Heim Gallery. As the salon fell silent with tension, the three repeatedly raised the price in jumps of $117,000. Finally, Ciechanowieski, nodding...
...French smuggling raps. In recent years he has made millions as an arms procurer and builder of military bases in Saudi Arabia. Ojjeh's spokesman dismissed the reports as nonsense, and at week's end he was said to be negotiating a $293 million deal to buy aircraft from Dassault-Breguet, the French planemaker, presumably on behalf of the Saudi government. Nor has Ojjeh's opulence declined. At last count he owned ten Rolls-Royces, 30 Mercedes and two Boeing 707s. Says he: "I do not lack the necessities of life...
Were she not an unquestioned star, one would suspect The Main Event of being a vanity production-the sort of thing aging screen queens sometimes get their wealthy admirers to buy for them so that the camera may once again be permitted to adore them. In particular, this star seems to labor under the delusion that it is not so much her face as her bottom that is her fortune-so many low angles of it upturned and bouncing about are featured. It's not a bad bottom, but you can't really make a movie...