Word: wined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supplies unless Zaïre pays $20 million in overdue bills. Meanwhile, Le Guide has been spending neither wisely nor well. He shelled out $11 million to sponsor the Ali-Foreman fight "to put the country on the map," and another $14 million went for Portuguese wine to lubricate last week's festivities. Mobutu has been told by the International Monetary Fund to change his ways if he wants $170 million in new loans, and in an anniversary speech last week, he did promise reform, including committees to supervise spending, and compensation to lure back skilled expatriates...
...Caroline Kennedy, an art student at Sotheby's, may be adopting a lower profile. For her 18th birthday last week, young Caroline canceled plans for a big London bash and joined a few friends at a Berkeley Square club. The birthday feast: a hamburger and a glass of wine...
...line with Bloomingdale's theme that the store is a "neverending party," Traub has played host to some genuine after-or before-hours parties. This month alone he has presided over a wine-tasting held to mark publication of a book, The Joys of Wine, which Bloomingdale's will sell for $45, and a breakfast at which a mime helped celebrate the store's introduction of French-made watches...
...Justice Harry Blackmun's 67th birthday, and all his colleagues on the U.S. Supreme Court had gathered in their private dining room to raise a glass of wine and sing Happy Birthday. Then, when the song died down, Chief Justice Warren Burger called for attention. Solemnly he announced that William Orville Douglas had written a note to President Ford saying he was retiring that day, after nearly 37 years on the court-the longest term served by any Justice in history. When the suddenly subdued lunch eventually ended, Burger and the others each stepped up to the crippled senior...
...rates a chapter in The Women of Watergate, but then so does every other female however remotely connected to the scandal. This paste-up of old clippings serves principally as a reminder that Watergate created not just victimized wives but several heroines: Washington Post Publisher Katharine Graham, Prosecutor Jill Wine Volner, Representatives Barbara Jordan and Elizabeth Holtzman. Aside from that, the book sags with speculation ("Yet there is a great deal that [Pat Ellsberg] does not say, but it is impossible to believe she has not felt") and shameless padding ("Jill Volner certainly did not grow...