Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bashing" came into vogus, and the 6-ft., 8-in., cigar-smoking Fed chairman became a familiar figure on Capitol Hill, where he was frequently called to testify before irate Congressional committees...
...Meredith make it official? To help raise money for the Festival Theater in Santa Fe, Dandy Don and the Giffer opened there last week in Neil Simon's comedy The Odd Couple. Meredith, the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback, plays Oscar Madison, the slob's slob, complete with a cigar and a New York Mets baseball cap. ("I hate the Yankees," he explains.) Gifford, the ex-New York Giants running back, is Felix Unger, the neat freak. Although Meredith did a show at the same theater last year, this is the first time on the boards for Gifford. No matter...
...Inter-American Affairs Langhorne A. Motley, who announced his resignation last week, declares, "I think that anybody who looks at Cuban affairs can say that there has been a significant effect on Cuba as a result of the U.S. embargo." It is counted as a small cost that cigar-smoking Americans have had to do without--or illegally obtain--Cuba's prized handmade cigars, which have become Castro's personal symbol...
...Scholars these days are like the errant knights of old, wandering the ways of the world in search of adventure and glory." So says Morris Zapp, a cigar- chewing American professor whose extensive lecture itinerary has temporarily stranded him at a dreary medieval conference in Rummidge, a drab, provincial English university. Also on hand to suffer the droning speeches and inedible food is Persse McGarrigle, a young Irishman who is a virgin both in the traditional sense and vis-a-vis the brave new world of gypsy scholars. What dazzles McGarrigle most about the proceedings is Angelica, a beautiful...
...notes on Iacocca from 1978. "When I first saw him at the Ford annual meeting, he was keeping a low profile," Witteman recalls. "The next time we crossed paths was in November 1978, as he was emerging from behind a curtain into the threadbare Chrysler pressroom with a big cigar in his hand. He was about to be introduced as the company's newest employee...