Word: gossip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MORE IMPORTANT THAN the post-election gossip, though, is the understanding among club members that most of their energies for the past eight months could have been channeled into more productive projects. "What saves us right now is that the club--like the Student Assembly--is not big enough to make a difference," Artson remarked recently. "But we have to build the group back up again in the right fashion." And Mills, new secretary of the club and the only freshman to emerge from the carnage with a top leadership position, is confident that the wounds are healing...
...events, and Legal Times' Feb. 5 issue faults Takeover Specialist Joseph Flom, who is chairman of the Journal's board of editors, for collecting retainers "for doing nothing." Says former Federal Trade Commission Executive Director Basil Mezines, a Washington lawyer who reads them: "I just love these gossip sheets−as long as they don't write about...
Whatever the truth, the principals were coolly going about their business last week. The tireless Tito visited Iraq, Syria and Jordan, while Minutic was singing La Traviata in Skopje, the capital of Macedonia. Minutic's father, when reached at his home in Dalmatia, denied the gossip about his daughter's romance. "The only thing they have in common," he said, "is their love for good music...
There the beautiful people would gather to devour gossip and caviar, sip Dom Perignon and dance until dawn under the indulgent stewardship of the Shah's trusted adviser and former son-in-law, Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi. Last week this stately pleasure dome had turned into a microcosm of the political chaos back home...
Rumors blamed Cauthen's woes on the distractions of fame and California women. But Cauthen's ex-agent Lenny Goodman dismissed the gossip and accused California trainers of sticking Stevie with slow horses: "I could not give him the horses I wanted him to ride. They gave me leftovers." The bettors agree: Cauthen rode only ten favorites during his winless streak. Explained Trainer Joseph Trovato: "Trainers have their own commitments. It's hard to break into that if you're an outsider." Frustrated, Goodman packed up and left for New York two weeks ago; Cauthen...