Word: krafts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scarce objects of every conceivable description. Britons are busily unearthing-and auctioneers as busily selling-such objects of dubious virtue as antique typewriters, gramophones and biscuit tins. Americans, with more catholic taste for trivia, have enshrined such unlovely objets trouvés as old flyswatters, orange reamers, apple parers, Kraft cheese jars (a.k.a. "swanky swigs"), Mickey Mousiana, player pianos, Coke bottle tops, beer cans, Barbie dolls, barbed wire and tractor seats-to name only a smattering. Gypsy Rose Lee's mink G string sold for $1,500 to a London banker. In the mid-1920s, the firm of Louis...
Strauss, 61, becomes the third proprietor of that trouble-ridden business in less than a year: Evan Dobelle, 34, former U.S. Chief of Protocol, headed the re-election committee for six months after it was formed last March, then was judged too lightweight; Tim Kraft, 38, Carter's assistant for political affairs, took over in September, then was judged too abrasive. Both will remain with the committee, Dobelle as a fund raiser and Kraft as director of field operations...
Concerned that his own re-election apparatus may not be adequate, Carter appears on the verge of some major shakeups. Campaign Manager Tim Kraft is a likely victim. Former Democratic National Chairman Robert Strauss is considering abandoning his job as Special Ambassador to the Middle East to assume direction of the Carter-Mondale Committee...
Suzanne H. Kraft...
According to witnesses questioned by the FBI, cocaine was available at parties the night before and the evening after the fund raiser. TIME has learned that among the witnesses is Lana Rawls, ex-wife of Soul Singer Lou Rawls. She told the FBI that on Oct. 21, Jordan, Caddell, Kraft, Golden and several others dined at Sergio's Restaurant, a Beverly Hills supper club that has since closed. After dinner, according to Lana Rawls, they returned to the Century Plaza, where cocaine was made available to them. Her attorneys have told the Government that, if granted immunity from prosecution...