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...Hastings. Conceded Prosecutor Robert Richter in his opening argument to the jury: "We will not put a big number four up in front of you. We'll put two plus two." The Government contended that Hastings had gone to Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hilton Hotel for dinner on Sept. 16, 1981, as Borders had said he would, to signal his involvement in the scheme. Prosecutors played a tape of a phone call Hastings made to Borders 19 days later. Using what the Government claimed were code words, Hastings supposedly promised that he would rule the next day that...
...assessments of the economy too. Reagan is well aware that the recession has reinforced a widespread impression that he is indifferent to the sufferings of the poor and unemployed; some 300 demonstrators drove home the point last week by assembling in the bitter cold outside Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel and chanting, "We want jobs!" At the Percy dinner inside, the President told his partisan audience: "In the long run, economic growth will put our unemployed back to work, revive idle factories and open new doors of opportunity. But in the short run, our people continue to hurt...
...Caesars. Even so, investors who shunned Atlantic City when gambling was first made legal five years ago are now having hasty second thoughts. Holiday Inns and the Trump Organization have broken ground on a jointly owned $200 million hotel-and-casino complex adjacent to the Atlantic City Convention Hall. Hilton Hotels Corp. has also decided to open up in the city and earlier this autumn announced plans to construct its own $250 million hotel-and-casino complex. Resorts International is planning additional construction featuring a second casino and a sports arena. Both the Golden Nugget and Caesars are preparing additional...
DIVORCED. Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner, 50, violet-eyed empress of stage, screen and altar; and John Warner, 55, Republican Senator from Virginia; after six years of marriage; she for the sixth time, he for the second; in Fauquier County...
...deplore the injustice art fashion did to Avery without, however, going to the opposite extreme of making him into a Yankee Matisse, a painter (in the recent words of Critic Hilton Kramer) comparable to late Turner and late Cézanne, displaying "the kind of archetypal grandeur and sweep that is to be found only among the masterworks of modern art." Of Avery's power as a colorist, there is no reasonable doubt. The only way not to feel it in the Whitney is to wear sunglasses. But Avery as draftsman? The color weaves a seamless fabric of pleasure...