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...million bribe to a high official in Honduras to reduce an export tax on bananas. The bribe was uncovered by an SEC investigation into the suicide of United Chairman Eli Black, who swung his briefcase to smash a hole in a window of his office on the 44th floor of New York City's Pan Am Building and then jumped to his death. The disclosure helped bring on a Honduran coup that overthrew the government of President Oswaldo López Arellano...
...Musical Jubilee originated as a cruise-ship "entertainment." At last report, the St. James Theater was an chored at Manhattan's 246 West 44th St., but it may just possibly prove to be an ocean-going vessel...
Early one morning last February, Eli M. Black, 53-year-old chairman of United Brands Co., plunged to his death from his 44th-floor Manhattan office. Early last week General Oswaldo López Arellano, 53-year-old Honduran chief of state, was overthrown in a bloodless coup. The link between the two men was an alleged $1.25 million bribe that is now being investigated by both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a Honduran commission...
...drunk gang" (unimportant projects--usually wrecking) and pours out his life story one night in a bar. He is someone who was created by ironworking--it defines him--and when he recurs throughout the book he is powerful. But it leads Cherry nowhere: when Timmy falls off the 44th floor--just as he is kicking booze and becoming a competent ironworker again--Cherry can only start apologetically to philosophize about What Is An Accident, then give a kind of literary "what the hell." But you know he cares about the fear--they all do. Yet every time he starts...
...days," Brennan recalls, "I would get up at 6 a.m. no matter what. Now you can't walk around at 6. At 7 it's safe. But you can see the 6 a.m. people still up." She lives alone in a midtown hotel on West 44th Street-"just opposite the Algonquin" and only a few steps away from The New Yorker -and she has a canny, survivor's eye for a bargain. "The coffee at Bickford's is only 16?," she will say, "but they rob you at Childs." She broods on the differences between Woolworth...