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...Milly, I decided to make a fuss," said Choreographer George Balanchine. "Milly" is Melissa Hayden, 50, retiring after 22 years as a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet...
...recent weeks, she has felt herself a prisoner; her apartment now is filled with flowers sent by reporters trying to curry favor. When a friend suggested going out for lunch, she retorted: "Now where am I going to lunch with all this fuss?" Two weeks ago, Martha discussed with intimates the possibility of John's being indicted. She was worried, but she kept herself in check and made a rambling deposition in the Democrats' civil suit. Though she showed remarkably good spirits, she once lost her temper: "I have been at the mercy of the White House...
...made an unsecured loan of $2,150,000 to Sociedad Agricola y Industrial San Cristobal, a firm founded and still partly owned by Costa Rican President José ("Don Pepe") Figueres. Says Figueres: "Vesco's investments here are very secure and creative. I can't understand the fuss." I.O.S.'s Fund of Funds allegedly plowed about $60 million into Interamerican Capital, a Costa Rican investment firm that could well serve as a vehicle in securing for Vesco a firm financial foothold in the country. For a time, Alberto Inocente Alvarez, a Figueres confidant, headed the company...
...people will be out of work. But the city's economy, booming from the $40 million Disney World venture, will hardly notice the loss. Though Georgia will lose three military bases, Senator Sam Nunn said he would ask some questions of the Administration but not raise too much fuss. Compared to the cutbacks in other states, he declared, "Georgia fared well...
...rural South, where every filling station harbors a budding pit crew and every stop sign is a potential starting line for an impromptu drag race, auto racing is a way of life. At the drive-in hamburger stands, kids who first soloed on John Deere tractors fuss over their souped-up cars and talk endlessly about "axle ratios" and "camshaft durations." Their heroes are the stock-car drivers who ride the Grand National circuit, a highballing competition that first took hold in the 1950s. The king of the road then was Lee Petty, a lead-footed type who roared...