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According to witnesses questioned by the FBI, cocaine was available at parties the night before and the evening after the fund raiser. TIME has learned that among the witnesses is Lana Rawls, ex-wife of Soul Singer Lou Rawls. She told the FBI that on Oct. 21, Jordan, Caddell, Kraft, Golden and several others dined at Sergio's Restaurant, a Beverly Hills supper club that has since closed. After dinner, according to Lana Rawls, they returned to the Century Plaza, where cocaine was made available to them. Her attorneys have told the Government that, if granted immunity from prosecution...
...dirty tricks -agents had been trying to discredit Martin Luther King Jr. by recording hotel room sounds of his alleged extramarital activities and sending the tapes to his wife. Hoover readily approved the plot against Seberg. Ordered Washington headquarters in a memo: "Jean Seberg has been a financial supporter of the B.P.P. [Black Panther Party] and should be neutralized." Headquarters had only one caveat: "It would be better to wait approximately two additional months until Seberg's pregnancy would be obvious to everyone...
Larsen's other civic passion was conservation. He donated 162 acres near his house in Fairfield, Conn., to the Audubon Society for a bird sanctuary, which the society named for him and his wife Margaret. He served on the board of the Nature Conservancy, which acquires and manages wild lands throughout the U.S., and he organized the Nantucket Conservation Foundation, a group that solicits donations of open land on Nantucket Island to keep it out of the hands of developers. The organization is a typical Larsen success. It now controls 17% of the island-and through the acquisition...
...Scotto received a letter warning that a claque was planning to boo her. It was signed "Enzo Grimaldo," the character played by Pavarotti. Scotto's husband accused Pavarotti of sponsoring the claque and alerted Adler and the San Francisco police. At the first sign of trouble, he vowed, hiss wife would walk off the stage...
Such moments of depression are rare, but they are an occupational hazard. Feasting or dieting, fussed over or not, a barnstorming opera singer spends long hours of isolation in hotels, studying, resting (Pavarotti sleeps ten to twelve hours before a performance) or simply killing time. Pavarotti's wife Adua joins him on tour for a few weeks each year, and friends consider her spirited, sensible ministrations a tremendous boost for him. Says one of them: "At least she doesn't stand in the wings with holy water like the wives of some Italian tenors." But Pavarotti manages only a handful...