Word: suits
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...Already about 400 other frogs (many of them English ones, heavily reinforced with Japanese and Americans) are in the queue; the earliest ones, real frogs from France, had been here since 7. Dress: sneakers, blousons, & rucksacks, jeans. A suit or two. We are a long way from the days when a minister, arriving at Buckingham Palace in trousers rather than knee breeches, was asked why he had joined the retinue of the American ambassador...
Last week both Robert and Gloria struck back. Robert, who was his father's carefully groomed heir apparent before the blowup, filed suit to recover more than $2 million in cash and stock that he claimed was owed him under employment contracts. And in divorce court, Gloria sued for legal separation from her husband of 45 years. Charging that Herbert had beaten her, conducted extramarital affairs and engaged in financial chicanery, Gloria demanded control of either Dart or the family's real estate company. Responding through a lawyer, Haft denied any wrongdoing and accused Gloria and Robert of forming...
...divorce suit instantly replaced White House gaffes as Topic A in Washington. The charges of abuse led wags to wonder just how much of a punch the diminutive Haft, who stands little more than 5 ft. tall even with his Don King-like surge of white hair, really could pack. For his part, Haft alleged that his wife had physically abused him and said Gloria and Robert had launched a media campaign to "destroy...
...Rose Garden to the President. The flowers were voluptuous, the iced tea tangy. Deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster moved through the group, hunching his shoulders so that he was closer to the shorter guests, a beaded chain holding his White House pass hanging outside his pinstripe suit -- a shackle perhaps. But that is an afterthought...
...third guard, a Russian citizen who has asked that his name not be used, will likely drop his complaint with the commission and file suit against the University in Middlesex County Superior Court, his lawyer, Richard Spicer, said yesterday. Stephen G. McCombe, who is blamed in Marshall's report for contributing to a false perception of discrimination in the guard unit, is also likely to file some sort of legal action soon, Spicer said...