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That left Shannon & Luchs with two problems: 1) honoring the $3,651.56 worth of lOUs that were given out when the original $2,200 was exhausted, and 2) disposing of the cans. The realty company sought the help of local businessmen and collected $700. The townspeople hope to meet the remaining deficit of nearly $3,000 by holding a big benefit dance or carnival later this month. To the disappointment of ardent environmentalists, all of the cans will eventually be buried as landfill; earlier plans to recycle the aluminum containers had to be abandoned. Reason: insufficient manpower to separate them...
MAURICE STANS, 65, director of C.R.P.'s finance committee. A self-made millionaire accountant, Stans joined the Nixon Administration as Secretary of Commerce in 1969. By urging import quotas, easier pollution controls and less stringent consumer-protection standards, he accumulated a sheaf of political lOUs from businessmen. When he left Commerce last year, he began calling them in, advising businessmen to make large cash or stock contributions to the campaign. They could do that secretly, he noted, by making their gifts before a tough campaign-fund disclosure law took effect in April 1972. Stans' efforts got C.R.P. into...
...hostess during the 1960s to some of the wildest parties ever seen in Saigon's back rooms. U.S. Special Forces troops used to lavish $1,000 apiece on parties that lasted a whole weekend. Now fat and aging (she is 32), Momma is left with $30,000 in lOUs from G.I.s and a flood of bittersweet memories. "I love Special Forces men. They are all crazy and never care about tomorrow. They go into field and maybe die. I stay here and get drunk and maybe...
...some recent visitors to Ibiza have suspected that the Irvings are considerably less than affluent. According to some reports, he has lost heavily at poker on Ibiza and has lOUs out. (The dust jacket on his novel The 38th Floor calls him a onetime "professional poker player.") Neither he nor his wife dresses in a fashion indicating much wealth...
...only to help Muskie but also to impress a grateful party with the fact that Kennedy was doing what he could to promote unity and minimize the chances of a truly damaging, down to the-wire nomination battle. Ted will then wait until 1976 to cash in the lOUs that his old roommate picked up for him last week...