Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Albany, Ga., after his father, Richard Jordan, 69, a retired insurance agent and former Army major, suffered a stroke (he died the following day). Earlier, Jordan and the White House as a whole had had to slog through yet another of Ham's unwanted and unwinnable bouts with the gossip columnists...
Bellows rallied his demoralized troops and thoroughly redesigned the paper, adding such successful features as a front-page Q.-and-A. column and "The Ear," a racy and much-copied gossip column...
...involves the Kennedys, and it will not be pleasant reading for their hagiographers. In the early '60s, the Justice Department, under Attorney General Robert Kennedy, began investigating an old family friend, Publicist Igor Cassini, for his supposed failure to register as a foreign agent. Cassini, who wrote a gossip column for the Hearst papers under the name Cholly Knickerbocker, was suspected of illegally representing the Dominican Republic and Dictator Rafael Trujillo in the U.S. Perhaps because of his family's friendship with Cassini, Bobby Kennedy pursued him with extraordinary ferocity, afraid that he and his brother would otherwise...
...presentation to Congress on Jan. 23, Mclntyre has been zealously applying the concept to the Federal Government. The Department of Defense asked for $130.5 billion in new spending authority for fiscal 1979, but will probably get $126 billion-and that is one of the smaller cuts. According to OMB gossip, Mclntyre whacked much harder at spending proposals by the departments of Labor and Housing and Urban Development...
...works is Furniture in 24 Hours, Volume II. One of the two dozen entries will be a chair that requires no glues or screws and can be finished for less than $10, including back and bottom cushions. Another student-designed project is an updated version of the 1940s gossip bench, also glueless and screwless, that can be made for $6. Still, to Spiros Zakas, making furniture is not so much a matter of price as of pride-of "putting yourself in your home." If he keeps at it. Author-Editor Zakas may even put Designer Zakas out of business...