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...then Denver was never really hip. The multimillion-selling career that began with his penning of "Leaving on a Jet Plane" for Peter, Paul and Mary and crested with "Rocky Mountain High," "Sunshine on My Shoulders" and "Take Me Home, Country Roads" was never the messianic scamper of a rock star. His fans were many but silent; Denver was a star in the way that "Walker, Texas Ranger" is a top-20 hit these days: through the power of the uncool masses...
...seen no significant pay or benefit increases during that time, weren't so enamored. In fact, "they were ready to throw the bum out," says a former Carey aide. The challenger, James P. Hoffa, son of the notorious former Teamsters leader, was coming on strong with a multimillion-dollar war chest. To save their man, Carey aides began a desperate scramble for money. The schemes they hatched would make a mockery of the $22 million that the Federal Government had spent to clean up the union and ensure that the race would be the fairest in Teamster history...
...husband of the nice lady who runs the Judaica shop over on Lincoln Road. In Los Angeles, where he made a considerable fortune, Moskowitz is renowned--in the tiny, working-class town of Hawaiian Gardens, that is--for taking over its bingo parlor and turning it into a multimillion-dollar money machine...
...hedge managers get paid on two very lucrative tiers. They collect 1% to 2% of their funds' assets as a management fee and, the real jackpot, anywhere from 10% to 30% of their trading profits. At larger funds, where those profits can run into hundreds of millions, that means multimillion-dollar paychecks for fund managers...
Templesman, a diamond dealer with long experience in Africa, was seeking loans from the Export-Import Bank and loan guarantees from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation for a multimillion dollar diamond deal in Angola. After the meeting, a sympathetic Lake decided to intervene: he directed an NSC staff member, with approval from legal counsel, to call Ex-Im and OPIC. The message: Templesman's venture had "merit." But TIME has obtained the text of a recent letter from Angola's ambassador in Washington that bluntly asks the U.S. to stop attempts to broker a diamond deal and, in an apparent...