Word: gail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Collaborating with Iker on that last-minute effort was Associate Editor George J. Church, a TIME Business writer since 1969 who wrote this week's cover story with the help of Reporter-Researchers Bonita Siverd and Gail Perlick. Like former Bond Trader William Simon, Church got his start on Wall Street, first as a correspondent and later as a front-page editor for the Wall Street Journal (which is singled out in this week's Press section as one of the ten best newspapers in America). No skeptic about the reality of the energy crunch, Church...
...reportedly sent his personal emissary, a former CIA man, to negotiate the ransom and release. The payoff was estimated to be $2.8 million, considerably less than the $17 million originally demanded. Young Getty was saying little publicly about his experience last week. As his mother, former Actress Gail Harris, said shortly before his release, "He will need time to learn to believe in love and affection once again...
Rome police were at first highly skeptical that young Getty had been kidnaped at all. Independent and partial to hippies, Getty rarely even slept in the apartment of his mother, former Actress Gail Getty Jeffries, 39, who divorced the boy's father, Eugene Paul Getty, and has since been remarried and separated. Instead, he would find a bed in the apartment of an artist friend or, more recently, in the flat of two 24-year-old German twins, Martine Zacher and Jutta Zacher Winkelmann...
While Magruder expects to serve a brief prison term, he has already started a small marketing consultant firm and hopes to be able to support his wife Gail and their four children. Now that he has decided to tell the truth, his friends say, he seems more at ease, and feels that the worst for him may be past...
...well groomed. In some cases, the witnesses were accompanied by their attractive, equally open-faced wives, who patiently sat a row or two behind their husbands in the hearing room, testimony to the unity of the American family in times of crisis. Senator Ervin's tribute to Gail Magruder was more than a courtly Southern gentleman's acknowledgment of beauty; it was a signal that forgiveness was in the air. The Senate Select Committee hearings are not, after all, Perry Mason redivivus, complete with dueling attorneys, surprise witnesses and sudden breakdowns. They are, instead, a series of civics...