Word: grand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Grand Junction, Colo...
Under Alto's prodding, the investigation of the GSA, which employs 35,000 and spends $5 billion annually as the renter, builder and purchasing agent for the Federal Government, has spread to grand juries and U.S. Attorneys throughout the country, Investigators in Fort Worth, Dallas and El Paso documented $100,000 worth of fraudulent GSA overpayments after just two weeks of auditing last month. In Bayonne, N.J., investigators have discovered a construction contract that was first awarded to an extremely low bidder for just over $1 million and then was upped substantially in a suspicious change of project plans...
...usual time: the last week in August and the first week of September. The usual people were in attendance: Grand Slam Candidate Bjorn Borg with a fortune in endorsement insignia to grace his tennis togs; new women's No. 1 Martina Navratilova with a fortune in gold jewelry to adorn her now-winning form; Chris Evert with a list of crack hairdressers for prematch sprucing up; Vitas Gerulaitis with a list of ear-splitting discos for post-match winding down; Evonne Goolagong stayed home with her baby; Jimmy Connors brought his mother along. Only the place was unusual...
...Gonzales and Ken Rosewall dreamed of an organized tour circuit that would provide steady income to pro regulars. The current Big Three-Borg, Connors and Argentina's Guillermo Vilas -can now ply their trade on two multimillion-dollar tours, Lamar Hunt's World Championship Tennis and the Grand Prix circuit. However, this year none of them has deigned to play in enough W.C.T. and G.P. events to qualify for the $2 million bonus pool for top players; they can make more money on the outside...
Granier-Deferre's talents perfectly suit that spirit. The textures of a period costume, the mood of a grand hotel or a diplomatic corps tennis tournament-these he dreamily recaptures for us in a way that gives the film its strangely innocent, almost wistful quality. How one wishes that the revolutionary politics of our age had actually been conducted with the elegance and civility depicted here. If only history had Granier-Deferre's good taste, and had kept the blood and violence offstage, so that the sound of the gramophone playing tangos had not been drowned...