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Another major problem in the Black community is that it is "void in charismatic leadership." Gloria Toote, former assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said, adding that Blacks do not encourage young Blacks to serve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blacks Must Fight to Maintain Present Status, Stokes Says | 4/3/1981 | See Source »

...October 16 Gloria Bernheim emerged from the Boston offices of the Department of Labor and told reporters she had charged the school with ignoring federal affirmative action codes. Since then, a series of groups has pressured the school to step up its lagging affirmative action efforts, with virtually no success...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: A Choice Between Two Futures | 2/27/1981 | See Source »

...busily gobbling up key British companies, possibly for the Soviets. Usher had known and much disliked the conglomerator in his days as an economic attache to the British embassy in Washington (A Capitol Offense). He had also known and much liked Fletcher's wacky, lovely wife Gloria, who died driving her Jag too fast. In fairly short order, given his necessity to invoke Goethe, Swinburne, Auden, the Old Testament, Shakespeare, Conrad, Dostoyevsky, The Barber of Seville, Beethoven, Berenson, Vasari and other fonts of circumstantial wisdom, Usher stumbles into a morass of rot in Mass. As friends keep telling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Don Vivant | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...happenstance is Usher's discovery that Gloria Fletcher had in fact been killed by her tycoon husband. The don also finds out that Fletcher is a front man for John P. Harrigan, godfather of Boston's Irish Mafia, whose laundered money is being used for suspicious purchases abroad. Through the delectable Alyss Summers, an art historian, Usher learns that Harrigan has stolen a Donatello statue of St. John the Baptist, as well as a relic of the saint, from a church in Siena. Between lectures Usher gets involved in a gang war, a stratagem to rescue the Donatello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Don Vivant | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

Pierre Cardin wallpaper. Gloria Vanderbilt sweatsuits. Calvin Klein denim diaper covers. The designer craze has made flauntable fashions more commonplace than chic. Now Louis Vuitton, the French maker of luxury luggage, has concluded that many self-respecting snobs may prefer more subtlety. This fall Vuitton will introduce a new line of trunks and suitcases that do not have its famous LV initials sprinkled across the covering fabric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Discreet Chic | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

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