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...divorced twice. A third marriage, she says, gave her the name of Tannenbaum. She was twice imprisoned in Illinois for forgery and embezzlement. The Colonel apparently followed her friend to Boulder, and the two remained close-so close that Riha's attorney claims to have seen an IOU that Riha gave to Galya, which specified cancellation in the event of their marriage. The two remained friends after Riha's marriage to Hana, and Galya was present the night that Hana ran screaming from the house. Galya alone claims to know Riha's whereabouts. "He is somewhere between...
Most players observe a strict honor code. "The loser will almost always cough up--eventually," one gambler said. There are, of course, the notable exceptions. One perpetual loser's IOU's (known to the holders as moths) were sold back and forth at 20 per cent of face value. At his graduation, a number of his friends got together and gave him several hundred dollars worth of his own moths...
...against him (TIME, June 15). Nursing a violent dislike built up during his years as a member and chairman of Capitol Hill's Joint Atomic Energy Committee, Anderson, to collect anti-Strauss votes, drew on his personal popularity in the Senate, drummed up party loyalty, and cashed every IOU he had for past favors rendered fellow Democrats...
...hustle a little. Promising a juicy committee assignment here, collecting an IOU there. Bridges knew just what Dirksen's margin would be (20-14) well before caucus time. By then he had another problem: such G.O.P. conservatives as Iowa's Bourke Hickenlooper, Kansas' Andy Schoeppel and Nebraska's Roman Hruska. angry over Cooper's refusal to surrender, plotted a surprise scheme to elect South Dakota's Karl Mundt to be party whip instead of California's Tommy Kuchel-thus take back the one top party post (out of four) that Bridges had offered...
...mind off his road's troubles, announced that the New Haven's finances were so poor it could not pay some $2,000,000 interest charges due May 1 on its 4½% general mortgage bonds. Instead it will defer the payment, write its stockholders an IOU, and hope for better times -while the unpaid interest accumulates, thus making the eventual reckoning just that much steeper...