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...missions during Alioto's unsuccessful gubernatorial bid, later chiding him publicly for neglecting her. Last week the mayor said he was startled once again, when a reporter phoned his office in midday to disclose that Angelina had filed for divorce, asking the court for alimony and a substantial chunk of Alioto's estimated $6 million estate...
...decision should spring an extra $5 billion in water-pollution funds if localities can draft acceptable programs. The other big chunk of Nixon-blocked appropriations was $9.1 billion in highway funds. Two weeks ago, President Ford freed $2 billion of the total as a recession-fighting measure. The court's reasoning last week does not apply to the road controversy, but the betting is that the Justices will also strike down Nixon's highway-fund blocking when the argument reaches them...
...loan is only one in a growing number of bold business ventures by the Shah. Last year Iran bought a 25% chunk of the steel-producing division of West Germany's Krupp concern for $100 million, and Iranian banks participated in a $200 million loan to the Grumman Corp. Last week the Shah also unveiled a grandiose $5 billion project for the modernizing of Tehran, his capital...
...General Services Administration official put it: "This wasn't any 5 and 10?-store trade. These were Tiffany items." On the block in what must have been one of the most widely watched auctions ever held was a small chunk of the U.S.'s 276 million-oz. gold stockpile, offered for sale to the public in minimum lots of 400 oz.-worth $70,000 at pre-sale prices. But when the 209 bids submitted last week were opened, it looked like the great gold sale had drawn a strictly Woolworth's crowd...
Kamikaze Mission. Pioneer ll's longevity will be threatened in September 1979, when it swoops between Saturn and the innermost of its three rings on what Wolfe admits could be a "kamikaze mission." The spacecraft could be knocked out of action in a collision with a chunk of the ring's icy debris, some of which may be up to half a mile across. Otherwise, it will pass as close as 1,850 miles from Saturn's cloud tops (compared with 26,725 miles from Jupiter's). It will then be whipped around Saturn...