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Sternly but fairly he works with the peasants who live on his land to restore the ruined estate to its former greatness. He returns to the senator's house a rich man intent on finding a suitable wife. After the lavish wedding he builds his new hidden passages and secret Storerooms...
That was not all. Maryland authorities contended that Old Court's top officers had engaged in such improprieties as giving themselves lavish consulting fees and writing at least $5.8 million in overdraft checks. Maryland's attorney general is conducting a probe of Old Court's management that could produce criminal charges...
PICTURE A moonlit patio, the rhythm of soft Jazz, and a lavish dinner ready to be enjoyed. You're about to sit down when your date gives your hand an extra squeeze and wonders aloud. Do you happen to have V.D., herpes or AIDS? This scenario was not lifted from Porky still but instead is the type of warning currently offered by the popular media. According to author Allan M.Brandt Harvard professor of History and Science. such representations simplistic view that the problem can be solved it individuals act more responsibly in their sexual conduct...
...chilly. "He constantly made digs about how the artificially high rate of the dollar was ruining the franc and the French economy," says Lawson. "I'd definitely say the high dollar has hindered our ! friendship." A Los Angeles sales-promotion executive, Vicki Carr, experienced some hostility in Britain about lavish American spending on luxuries that Britons can ill afford. Says she: "In the past I felt Londoners were very, very friendly. This year they were not that helpful, not that willing. I felt antagonism. We heard from people there that they resent Americans coming over and buying...
Yale has had a polo program for over 50 years, said Timothy T.P. Robbins, a freshman member of the Yale polo tem. According to Robbins, Yale provides polo facilities while the team sponsors lavish fund-raising events in places such as Madision Square Garden and Palm Beach...