Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Laxalt launched his campaign exploratory committee with an announcement at the National Press Club in Washington. Quipped Laxalt, a close friend of Ronald Reagan's who served as his presidential campaign chairman three times: "In Western parlance, this hired hand is ready to take over as foreman." He already has the support of several Reagan loyalists, including Campaign Aide Lyn Nofziger and Pollster Richard Wirthlin...
Bloodlines ran everywhere in the race. Owner Dorothy Scharbauer and her husband Clarence have for the most part been cattle ranchers in Midland, Texas. But her father Fred Turner Jr. was a devout horse lover who had Derby Winner Tomy Lee (Bill Shoemaker's old friend) in 1959. Another return to glory amounted to an end to laughter: the breeder of Alysheba is Preston Madden of Lexington's Hamburg Place, the hors d'oeuvres center of the bluegrass. During the first 25 years of this century, John E. Madden was known as the "wizard of the turf." He bred five...
Auchincloss gently mocks such pretensions, but he takes seriously those people who try to live by the rules. Times may change; strictures remain for the fortunate few. No Friend Like a New Friend is set in the early 1960s. Frances Hamill, widow of an eminent lawyer, banker and adviser to Presidents, finds herself at a dinner party seated next to Manners Mabon, a short, fat, charming bachelor with no visible means of support. Before long, the matron and the dilettante are seen together constantly at art galleries and museums. People begin to talk, and Frances receives a painful reproof from...
Next will come the fund raisers who made the private military aid possible. They will include retired Army General John Singlaub, who solicited money openly for the contras on a worldwide basis; Barbara Studley, a rather mysterious friend of Singlaub's; Ellen Garwood, the Texas multimillionaire who donated lavishly to Channell's groups; and Jane McLaughlin, a former Channell aide who has spoken freely about his White House ties. Hakim, expected to return from living abroad, will flesh out the details of secret money transfers through Switzerland and the Cayman Islands...
...moves since then seem logical enough now, but at the time they took some nerve. He began to talk things over with David Sykes, an old friend who teaches a course in entrepreneurship at Boston University. Sykes believed that Rush's fans were still out there, 15 years older and living in better neighborhoods. This audience was still receptive to the music it liked, but not in sports arenas with 20,000 screaming kids...