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...call has gone out too ironic not to answer. A gala N.B.A. all-star oldtimers' game, which he found easy to ignore when the proceeds benefited the Players Association, has shifted its cause to the codgers themselves. "Sort of an old actors' fund," he says, "for prepension guys in dire need." The game is not until Feb. 9, in Indianapolis, and maybe some will start shooting around a week or two before, but not Cousy. Meanwhile, saying "I feel I still have another good year to give," Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 37, has changed his mind about quitting after...
...Louisville is a bright interior shaft that rises up 16 stories from the lobby-an impressive effect. It makes the inside of the hotel look Like a shopping mall that has ambitions to become a cathedral. Or, on the night of the presidential debate, like a sort of gala high-rise tenement. Tiers of balconies, one on every floor, overlook the lobby. They were festooned that night with American flags and sheets emblazoned with Republican slogans, and the faithful leaned out over each ledge to cheer Ronald Reagan when he returned from the debate: "Four more years! Four more years...
...workplaces all over the United States there's a trend toward worker relations," says Vicki West, coordinator of Outings and Innings, which organized the gala event...
...merchandise it. Christie Brinkley, 29, has and she does. Last year there was a striking swimsuit poster and calendar. The supermodel has also decided to take an active role in creating the clothes that she wears so well. Last week Brinkley was in Manhattan at the gala "label cutting" for her own Russ Togs line of swim and sport clothes due in department stores this fall. Wearing a man's pajama shirt and secondhand tuxedo jacket plus knit cotton pants she designed herself, Brinkley wants "to design clothes that are comfortable. These are not going to be skimpy bathing...
...three-day International Monetary Conference held last week in Philadelphia had all the trappings of a gala affair. In the evenings, private bankers and government finance officials from 22 countries sipped champagne at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and sampled Viennese pastries in the gorgeous Longwood Gardens of the Pierre S. du Pont estate. But during the daytime closed-door meetings at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel, the business was serious and the mood sober. Bankers were groping once again for solutions to the Latin American debt dilemma, which was threatening to take another turn for the worse...