Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...celebrate what she says have been "the most beautiful years of my life," Hungarian-born Jolie Gabor, seventyish, invited 300 of the "beautiful, elegant people of Palm Springs" for a little get-together. The occasion: the 20th anniversary of her marriage to Manhattan Jeweler Edmond de Szigethy, ten years her junior. Jolie's daughters were there, of course: Eva, who has had five husbands so far, Zsa Zsa, seven, and Magda, six. Jolie, who found contentment on her third try, sighs that the girls will not listen to her advice, namely, that "they don't have to marry...
...Montreal's Expo '67. But Guiding Red, Abstract Expressionist Helen Frankenthaler's biggest painting, has been rolled up in a warehouse ever since. Last week the work found a suitably grand setting: a 50-ft.-tall marble wall on the mezzanine of the south tower of Manhattan's 110-story World Trade Center. Why the title? Explains Frankenthaler: "I was guiding the red and j the red was guiding...
...first mortgage loan came to $200 million, which Ford and friends say is the largest mortgage ever awarded to a single real estate project. Twenty-eight banks had to share the load for the up-front construction loan that the mortgage will cover. Among them: Chase Manhattan, Morgan Guaranty, First National of Chicago and Bank of America. The 51 Ren Cen partners, for their part, coughed up $114 million in equity, much of it in staggered amounts as costs surged. Said one banking partner, watching his contributions swell and anticipating little return for years and years: "We look...
...private industry, in such fields as pharmaceutical research. After they complete the required four years' training, the overwhelming majority of new vets go into private practice, many specializing in treating "companion animals," the nation's 60 million dogs and cats. A busy vet tending pets in Manhattan or Beverly Hills can earn $50,000 a year or more. Increasingly, however, vets are opting for what is known in the trade as a large-animal practice, which means caring for the nation's livestock industry...
...scenario could be repeated endlessly: elk hunting in Montana, oil prospecting in Alaska, a quail shoot in Mexico, a social-cum-business bash in the Mojave Desert, a sales spiel atop Manhattan's Pan Am Building. The H-H passenger rides high above smog and speed limits, encounters no parking problems, and gets farther from the madding crowd than a hyperthyroid hermit with climbing irons...