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Meanwhile, in a report made public last Friday, the U.S. General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress, concluded after an eight-month probe that Citibank helped Salinas build "a money-managing system that disguised the origin, destination and beneficial owner of the funds involved...
Imagine that you are a young person at the height of your career--specifically, a career which demands physical energy and vocal skill. Now imagine that one day you looked down at your left arm and found it shaking uncontrollably. Imagine that you felt your muscles becoming rigid and your gait hesitant and unsteady. Imagine that you had no idea how to stop these symptoms. Imagine that a doctor told you that you have Parkinson's, a disease usually associated with (but by no means limited to) the elderly. In the later stages of the disease, communication becomes nearly impossible...
...newspaper also carries an ad selling a book claiming that "Integration is Genocide." Then there are the photographs: Barr standing with his arm around a national director of CCC and posing with the President of organization. These are the "real Americans" with whom Barr so proudly associates...
Malcolm took charge in 1964 and found the go-go '60s a perfect platform for stories about swaggering entrepreneurs very much like himself. He put more emphasis on stock-market advice and edgy corporate pieces and used charm, guile and arm twisting to ratchet ad sales. He also promoted the hell out of his magazine, becoming the most influential Harley biker, hot-air balloonist and Faberge-egg collector...
...Mormon bodyguards), couldn't see Ice Station Zebra often enough. Yet for every celebrity eccentric, a dozen more labored in obscurity. Who remembers Brian Hughes? This 1920s box-manufacturing tycoon liked nothing better than to patrol the sidewalk outside Tiffany in New York City, an envelope tucked beneath his arm. When the moment seemed right, and pedestrian traffic sufficient, Hughes would let loose its contents, sending a spray of jewels (all fake) clattering across the sidewalk. The melee that ensued never ceased to please him. On rainy days, he would exit a restaurant and deliberately leave behind an expensive umbrella...