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...helicopters and his father's yacht. In recent years he was one of the jet set's most renowned hosts, throwing parties in Beverly Hills populated by such celebrities as Tony Curtis, Farrah Fawcett and Robert Downey Jr. Guests say his hospitality ran to the grandiose, including a recent gala in a private home that featured a bowling alley, a band and movie showings in a screening room. It was reported that he owned five Ferraris...
...like this. I don't want to be known as the kook capital,'" says Bill Pope, interim CEO of the Roswell Chamber of Commerce, speaking with the easygoing charm and booster's earnestness one expects in a Southwestern city father. He is referring to next month's three-day gala marking the golden anniversary of the alleged crash in 1947 of a flying saucer near Roswell. It is a civic distinction that was long ignored by most Roswellians--Moore, for one, says she never heard of it while growing up--until a recent surge of national interest in extraterrestrial phenomena...
...Steven Grossman contends that contributors are responding to his pitch about investing in the party's grass roots and that the debt "is absolutely manageable," but for now the D.N.C. must resort to the tricks of the overextended. Payments to vendors are late; some donors to last week's gala were asked to send their checks overnight to help the party make its payroll...
Clinton's centrist agenda has added to the financial strain by creating at least a temporary rift between the D.N.C. and some of its most reliable friends. Conspicuously absent from the contributors to the gala was the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which spent lavishly on Clinton's re-election. Public employees know their jobs are on the line in any battle to cut spending...
...eager to bid on what is expected to be a $2 billion multi-year contract. The unions fear not only the loss of thousands of government jobs in Texas but also the possibility that the idea could spread to other states. The day after the union snubbed the gala last week, the Clinton Administration disappointed state officials by declaring what it called a compromise: private companies could begin computerizing the paperwork, but the larger task of determining who is eligible for various forms of assistance should be left to government workers. The Communications Workers of America, with 15,000 jobs...