Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee wound up with a well-publicized campaign surplus of $4.8 million but has certain expenses to worry about. Since the election, for example, it has dished out $300,500 in legal fees, much of the cash going to help committee officials like Stans, Jeb Magruder and Hugh Sloan in trying to extricate themselves from Watergate...
...rivalry between the empires of hedonism is intense, and not just in print. A part of Playboy's success is due to Publisher-Editor Hugh Hefner's carefully publicized regal lifestyle, which might be described as Middle-American-Sybaritic. Penthouse's Bob Guccione is the first imitator in a long line who has effectively challenged Hef on that front as well as on the newsstands...
Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott, who did not attend the cocktail meeting, recalls the President's telling him recently on a flight aboard Air Force One: "People can say what they want about me, but one thing they can't say. Stupid I'm not. If I had caught any of these people involved with these goings-on, I'd have fired their asses the hell out of there...
...HUGH EAMES...
Nevertheless, the Peary-Cook controversy smolders on, as dark and smelly as an Eskimo's blubber lamp. The Pearyites generally stand pat on the slushy record. Cook's boosters, like California Biographer Hugh Eames, author of Winner Lose All, tend to heap benefits where there is clearly doubt and portray their man as an unworldly underdog, victimized by the Establishment. Eames' assertion that Cook reached the North Pole on April 21, 1908, is not even borne out by Cook himself, who would not vouch for the accuracy of his instrument readings beyond a "reasonable certainty...