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...anti-Summers bandwagon? The smiling sophomore is a member of thefacebook.com group “Can Larry (or at least send him to Yale)” . . . A midnight masticator at the Quincy Grille last Saturday appeared to be bankrolling his Harvard tuition on Crimson Cash. The fatcat swiped away five bucks for a bacon cheeseburger and Vitamin Water—leaving a whopping $830 in an account as bloated as his stomach probably was later that night...
After reading your editorial about George Bush's attempts to negotiate oil price stabilization, I was dismayed by your willingness to dismiss the oil crisis as a problem only of the "fatcat oilmen who have soaked it in for 10 years of high oil prices." Apparently, your editorial writers have watched one too many episodes of "Dallas...
...union's membership through the use of friendly spiels and free passes to Rocky. Stallone predicates his rise to success within F.I.S.T. (F.I.S.T.??) upon his refusal to use strongarm tactics within the union's ranks, and his adoption of forceful tactics against management instead, in defiance of the "fatcat" union leadership in Washington...
...agencies; he is not a lawyer and is not from Washington, as he repeatedly tells acquaintances soon after the introductory handshake; and, federal campaign spending regulations notwithstanding, his grass-roots campaign is at a distinct financial disadvantage to those of other "liberal" Democratic candidates because Carter has relatively few fatcat backers). And his friendship with the Allman Brothers Band and other Capricorn Recording artists out of Macon is, it seems, genuine, if highly profitable of late--the four Carter benefits scheduled to date may net up to $200,000, with ticket stubs serving as proof of donation that will make...
Last week scandal nipped at the Governor's mansion. Newspapers reported that state Republicans had devised an illegal scheme for soliciting funds for Governor William Cahill's 1969 campaign. Fatcat contributors had been advised by leading Republicans to write off their donations on their tax returns as business expenses. This disclosure came on top of the conviction six months ago of the Governor's closest political confidant, Secretary of State Paul Sherwin, who had sought a kickback from a highway contractor. Cahill, who had seemed a shoo-in for reelection this year, is now in trouble...