Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less than flattering observations in print about Frank Sinatra's cronies and his budding friendship with Spiro Agnew, Cheshire bumped into Ol' Blue Eyes on Inauguration Night 1973. Sinatra loudly insulted her and stuffed a couple of one-dollar bills into her empty glass-a display that drove Cheshire to tears...
...current flurry of optimism will hardly take the edge off disappointment over the economy's performance in 1976. The year began in high gear with an unprecedented surge of investor confidence that drove the Dow Jones industrial average of 30 stocks up 122 points in January alone, the most successful month in Wall Street history (see box). By April, growth figures were in for the first quarter, and they seemed almost too good to believe. Discounted for inflation, G.N.P. rose at a 9.2% clip, one of the biggest quarterly spurts on record. Corporate profits soared; American Telephone & Telegraph eventually...
...London's tough East End. In 1965 Margulis set out to visit his sister in New York City, then rambled throughout much of the country, ending up in Las Vegas. In need of work, he took a job as busboy at the Desert Inn, thinking that a busboy drove the golf carts around the links. Instead, he soon found himself delivering food to the Hughes penthouse, where the aides presumably were impressed by his discretion and savvy...
...that seems reasonable enough. But another beneficiary is a Utah service-station operator named Melvin Dummar, who claims that he found a thin, raggedly dressed old man sprawled alongside a remote desert road in southern Nevada one night in 1968 and drove the old fellow back to Las Vegas. Dummar says that when his passenger got out, he claimed that he was Howard Hughes and borrowed 250 from...
...Hughes party had two Mercedes in the parking lot. They put Hughes in the back seat of one of them and Stewart with him, and drove to an adjoining baseball field. Aftershocks from the quake were still shaking the hotel and they parked in the open so the hotel wouldn't crash down on them...