Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kissinger last week maintained his sense of humor. While briefing congressional Republican leaders on foreign aid, he cracked, "I've been so busy figuring out what jobs I have left that I haven't had time to study this." Showing a visitor a dagger, a gift from the government of Abu Dhabi, Kissinger said with mocking menace, "You see what happens when you turn your back?" Informed by White House Barber Milton Pitts that Jerry Ford was next on his schedule, Kissinger responded, "Tell the President that the only place...
...costliest Christmas gift being offered this year may be a bathtub. The old-fashioned oval model is priced by Sakowitz, the Houston department store, at $118,335,000 (sales tax extra). But then, the tub is forever: it is filled with diamonds-enough, the holiday catalogue promises, "to cover an average female adult up to the neck...
...pricey choice of lessons from top pros in just about every sport or hobby the loved one might care to cultivate. But such instructional experiences as a day's guitar lessons with Jose Feliciano ($14,500) found no takers. Obviously the price was too low or the gift too evanescent, so this year's catalogue is more hardware-oriented. A French "wine château," for example, is going begging for $875,000. Another tempting bauble is a 63-acre Caribbean island 25 miles south of Miami, priced at $2,250,000. The buyer may charge the island...
...Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Ressner(3) 4-Humboldt's Gift, Bellow (5) 5-Shogun, Clavell (4) 6-The Eagle Has Landed, Higgins (6) 7-The Moneychangers, Hailey (8) 8-The Greek Treasure, Stone (7) 9-Cockpit, Kosinski(10) 10-Circus, MacLean...
...ruling would also force all donors to HSA who took a tax deduction on their gift in the last five years to recalculate their tax returns, he said...