Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aside from the official Anglo-American retinue, only Gerald and Betty Ford came to lunch. Annenberg had joked that for every gadabout he invited to lunch with his royal pals, he made ten or 25 enemies. (Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, expecting even more ill will from his big civic lunch the next day, said he thus "made 350 friends and 3 million enemies," in all "enough to make some of us hope it never happens again.") After lunch, as the Annenbergs' staff of 50 cleared away the maple-soufflé dishes and champagne (1970 Dom Perignon) glasses...
Gently but firmly forced into retirement last year by President Reagan after a naval career of a mere 63 years, Admiral Hyman Rickover, 83, is scarcely gone or forgotten. Last week in Washington, Richard Nixon, 70, Gerald Ford, 69, and Jimmy Carter, 58 (another man forced into retirement by Reagan), gathered to salute Rickover, under whom they had all technically served as lower-ranking naval officers. Nixon rumbled through Happy Birthday on the piano (strange, considering it was no one's birthday), Carter saluted the admiral's influence on him as "second only to my father," and Ford...
There were also the inevitable social contretemps. Publisher Walter Annenberg, former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, asked seven Americans, including Gerald and Betty Ford, to lunch with the royals at Sunnylands, his zillion-dollar spread near Palm Springs. "For every two friends you invite," Annenberg said, "you make 50 enemies." Hundreds of Southern California somebodies were upset about not being invited to Sunday night's 500-person bash on a Los Angeles movie sound stage. Nancy Reagan was hostess, and the President's pal Frank Sinatra rounded up the entertainment (Ed McMahon, Perry...
...task. From 1978 through 1981, Chrysler lost a total of $3.4 billion, and narrowly avoided bankruptcy thanks to $1.2 billion in loans that it was able to get only because the Federal Government guaranteed their repayment. Since 1978, when he came to Chrysler after a falling out with Henry Ford II that cost him the presidency of Ford Motor Co., Iacocca has kept his company alive by radical surgery: he closed 16 of its 52 plants and slashed its work force from 151,000 to 85,000. As a result, barring strikes, Chrysler can now turn a profit by selling...
...addition, police estimated the value of property stolen from February 24 to March 2 at $4595, including a 1975 Ford Granada that was stolen from a Harvard parking...