Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lodged claims for $30,000. It turned out that David had borrowed $165,328 from the Calhoun bank between 1968 and 1972. He had also overdrawn two checking accounts there by a total of $73,401. David's wife said she had no idea where all that money had gone. But David did have other assets?stocks and other securities worth an undisclosed amount?that were being held at the Calhoun bank. Before his death, David told friends that these assets, as well as assets of other family members, were handled by Bert Lance himself...
...wheeler-dealer. Had Carter cut his losses early on by easing Lance out, he would have gotten himself off the hook." From Boston, Senior Correspondent James Bell noted: "A wide variety of politicians, businessmen and academicians only want to know when Lance is going and why he hasn't gone already. You can almost hear Carter's support dripping away like a faucet in the night...
...Daddy was playing another of his mysterious, macabre jokes last week-or so it seemed. From Uganda came reports that President for Life Idi Amin Dada had gone into a coma following surgery-at the hands of a Soviet doctor-for an undisclosed ailment. "It looks serious," said an aide. But as with so many other dramatic moments in Amin's life, there was less here than met the eye. The operation, it turned out, apparently lasted all of three minutes and was for the removal of a swelling on the lower part of his neck. At week...
...least a few Chinese dissenters have gone much further in rejecting Mao's posthumous influence. One sign: novels and short stories dealing with forbidden themes are now being clandestinely circulated among friends in manuscript form. One such novel is entitled Ah Hsia, the name of its heroine-a hapless working girl who has been ravished by her factory's party boss. Another underground story, The Hunan River Runs Red, tells of a high-living party official whose son drowns himself out of disgust with his father's profligacy and privileged life. An illicit "yellow book"-Chinese slang...
...SCOTT TUROW had gone to law school anywhere but Harvard, he couldn't have written a book about his first year. Or at least, he couldn't have gotten it published. It says a lot about the publishing industry in America that One L, all 300 pages of it, could appear in bookstores throughout the country: not satisfied with the coverage given the Harvard Law School in Paper Chase and Love Story, G.P. Putnam's Sons had to jump into the act--an act that doesn't exist, say, for law schools at the University of Wisconsin or Boston University...