Word: gavelling
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...platoon, perhaps even a battalion, of the richest inhabitants of the planet. A seasoned observer estimates that the crowd rushing inside includes at least 100 people worth more than $50 million apiece. The fall art-auction season -- the "shark feed," as Connoisseur Editor Thomas Hoving calls it -- is at gavel pitch, and once again great works, and some not so great, are going, going . . . gone...
When the final gavel thumped down at the auction up at John Connally's 7,300- acre spread near Floresville, Texas, last Saturday, 126 of his prized Thoroughbreds and quarter horses had been sold off for nearly $400,000. Two of the latter were the progeny of a proud champion, Dash for Cash. The . stallion's name was apt, for the auction came at a time when Connally himself is making a run for money. Numerous creditors are pursuing the former Texas Governor and U.S. Treasury Secretary for millions in unpaid loans on a host of flailing ventures. Connally...
Chicago Court Reporter Richard Dagdigian, like any good stenographer, can take down rapid-fire testimony faster than a judge can bang a gavel. But until recently he was the only one in the courtroom who could decipher his notes. This resulted in long pauses in the proceedings while he flipped through the pages of his stenographic paper to reread testimony. Days might pass before typed transcripts were available. Now, even as Dagdigian's fingers touch the keys of his stenotype machine in the U.S. Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the unedited transcript, largely in readable English, appears...
...laugh track. Normally, that would be more than enough to prevent a television production from getting on the air. But last week, 42 years after broadcast coverage was first proposed and seven years after the House took to the airwaves, the U.S. Senate voted 67 to 21 to begin gavel-to-gavel TV and radio coverage on an interim basis...
Nothing was to be too grand for Texas' 150th birthday, not even a visit from the Prince of Wales. And so there stood Charles last week, biting into his first taco, cutting a slice from a 90,000-lb. sesquicentennial birthday cake and receiving an 18-inch ceremonial gavel from the state legislature. The gavel, he said, was "the biggest I've ever had, which is entirely appropriate because it comes from Texas...