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...element of mystery as well. The buying binge may have been fueled by a single investor group, possibly a Middle East consortium. One rumor has it that the Sultan of Brunei, monarch of the oil-rich country in northeast Borneo, has been buying millions of ounces of gold during the past month. He oversees a fortune estimated at $30 billion, and is said to be the world's richest man. Certainly he has the cash to play the gold market. TELEVISION Creating Static in the Skies...
...Broncos to the Super Bowl as Denver's deprived fans painted the country a bright orange. "I walked out onto the field," Miller says, "and thought, 'I used to coach at Astoria High.'" Within three years he was available to Astoria again, but the U.S. Football League's Denver Gold hired him for his marketability. Sales boomed briefly, but within a year he was fired again. At 58, Miller has, in a phrase coaches use on cut day, "resumed life" as a Dean Witter stockbroker. Norris Weese, the Bronco quarterback who finished the Super Bowl, visited Miller's office recently...
...Palace, the residence of former President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda, they witnessed a show of conspicuous consumption beyond their imaginings. Inside Imelda's boudoir were two queen-size beds on an elevated platform, and a grand piano. The former First Lady's washbasin was made of gold. Downstairs, in a not-so-bargain basement, the woman who used to refer to "my fellow poor" had left behind some 2,700 pairs of size eight shoes, five shelves of Gucci handbags and 38 of her 105 clothes racks, designed to carry 80 outfits each. Around the château hung...
...gold loops in the chain will be some 1,000 celebrities, including Kenny Rogers, Bill Cosby, Lily Tomlin and Pete Rose, the four co-chairmen. Organizers stress, however, that "this is a people's event." A North Dakota radio station is sponsoring an essay contest that will reward winners with transportation down to the line. A chili cook-off is planned along the route in Texas. Members of the feuding Navajo and Hopi Indian tribes have got together to endorse the event. Along a ten-mile stretch in New Mexico, thousands of hot-air balloons will ascend simultaneously. The chain...
...preparing a countersuit, was upset by a statement in his brothers' suit that shipments of the disputed cheese could conceivably become contaminated and damage the image of Gallo wines, which have been produced since 1933. Joseph's lawyer, John Whiting, points out that the cheeses have won gold medals at the past two Orange County fairs in California. Says Whiting: "This complaint has caused rancor because of the insinuations. Plainly it is not true that Mr. Gallo doesn't know how to make cheese. Joseph Gallo is very much a perfectionist and was kind of hurt that he was attacked...