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...alumni chairman going over the list of donors-so-and-so has hit it big, this other fellow is really raking it in. Agnew is unabashed about his own desire to "make some money" (Washington translation: become a millionaire), and he proclaims his admiration for the life-style of Palm Springs. He wants to live there some day. And Martha Mitchell some time ago said that she would be glad to leave Washington and get back to New York where John could "make some money...
...model of a cube-shaped building with a large entrance in one wall and triangular-shaped windows in the other. But there is no doubt about the level of craftsmanship among the people of Xabis. They made vessels of clay, stone and copper, wove cloth and mats from palm leaves and fashioned other copper objects, including axes, nails and pins. Some of the work is highly ornamental. Two metal plates, for instance, are engraved with images of fish and deer. A 9-in.-sq. metal flag, attached to a yard-long staff adorned by an eagle, is decorated with...
...York firms are aiming at the homosexual market, one with a series of nine-day junkets to Isla de Oro, in Panama's San Bias Islands, where the men sleep in hammocks in palm-thatched huts. A magazine aimed at homosexuals is offering a brace of two-week trips to Europe. "It's not a sexual trip," says one of the excursion's sponsors, "but a cultural one, intended for people interested in meeting those with similar interests...
JEAN SCOVILLE Palm Beach...
...catch phrase that doubtless will get a boost with the remake this year of a movie based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's novella. French magazines are calling it le style tennis or the Deauville look. But it might just as easily be described as the Newport-to-Palm Beach mood, or the John Held Jr. look (after the cartoonist who lampooned the '20s) or the Devereux Milburn look (for the '20s polo hero). Polo, tennis and golf-not as they were played but as they were watched-are central to the sporting-set concept...