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...attended a fund-raising dinner for 60 movie moguls and businessmen at the opulent mansion of Lew Wasserman, board chairman of MCA Inc., a show biz conglomerate. Later, accompanied by California's Governor Jerry Brown, Carter starred at a reception given by Actor Warren Beatty at the swank Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Waiting to play Gucci-footsie with the Georgia peanut farmer were the likes of Diana Ross, Louise Lasser, Peter Falk, Carroll O'Connor and Faye Dunaway. Responding to Beatty's flip comment that the guests were "pinkos, leftists, Commies," Carter quipped, "It is a real thrill...
...early '60s to assassinate Fidel Castro. It made a kind of amoral sense for the agency to turn to the Mob: when the Cuban leader took power, he closed down the Mafia's big moneymaking operations in Havana; Roselli had been running the swank Sans Souci gambling casino there. Roselli told the Senators that he also saw the killing of Castro as a "patriotic" endeavor, something he could do for his country. Both poisoned cigars and poisoned pills were considered by the CIA. For reasons that remain unclear, the mobsters muffed...
...years ago, and Lague, a tall (5 ft. 8 in.), Rhode Island-born former reporter for the now defunct Washington Daily News, stay out of the limelight. Unlike other professional gossip collectors, they avoid parties and are rarely seen at fashionable restaurants. Their first trip together to swank Sans Souci got them, in Lague's phrase, a table in "Haute Siberia." "Our work is done on the phone," says she. "We check our items. We don't run rumor, and we don't run anything we don't think is true...
...years a handful of communal farmers were the only inhabitants of the 120-acre area of thicket and coconut groves 20 miles south of Mexico's swank Acapulco resort on the Pacific. Then in 1968, Dallas multimillionaire Troy V. (for Victor) Post, newly enriched by the sale of his Greatamerica Corp. to Ling-Temco-Vought for $500 million, brought his genius and fortune to bear on the wasteland. Before long he had transformed it into an earthly paradise, a resort complete with a luxury hotel and detached villas, two of the world's best golf courses, an Olympic...
...First Women's Bank, which opened in the Manhattan premises once occupied by the swank restaurant Le Pavilion, is a more ambitious undertaking. It has raised an initial capitalization of $3 million from some 7,000 stockholders across the country, mostly women: some were so enthusiastic that they sent in long typewritten lists of potential customers. The bank is headed by President Madeline McWhinney, 53, a banker's daughter from Denver who was once an assistant vice president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. A dozen or so other women's banks are being organized around...