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Meanwhile, Rube the Great (a fine name for a prospective Derby winner) charged past the field to win by five easy lengths. Capital Asset, Secretariat's half brother, and Capito, half brother to Riva Ridge, both suffered from an acute lack of speed in the race, and were never in contention...
...Stocks. The largest of these liquid asset funds, the Reserve Fund Inc., began accepting purchases from the public in October 1972. In the short time since then, it has attracted $138 million from 10,000 accounts (minimum: $1,000 each)-even though it has been promoted by word of mouth among investment counselors, brokers, corporations and bank trust departments. Bruce Bent, vice president and treasurer, says that many people, "punchy from the stock market, are taking their money out and putting it in the fund." Indeed, about a third of the investments have come from brokers who have...
Jones' piling up of detail, which at times has overweighted his novels, proves quite an asset in this journal. He has a nose for those human quirks that override ideology. He notes that the clerks' coatroom at the South Vietnamese consulate in Paris is filled with mink coats. He notices that an officer is wearing an unauthorized third dog tag that reads, "If you are recovering my body,-you." He tunes in on a Vietnamese girl, who learned her English from a black G.I., as she tells of her gruesome experiences during the Tet offensive in the funky...
DiCara's mind--his chief political asset--works quickly to generate a congenial atmosphere in any meeting. One can almost hear the clicking as his mind makes up a new dossier on an acquaintance or hunts for an old one amid stacks of past encounters. Friends of DiCara claim that his mental vault holds the names, addresses and occupations of at least 7000 to 8000 people in the Boston area. "People tell me I know a lot of people," DiCara says. "I suppose it's one of those traits of personality that I know so many people...
...impossible as it could be rewarding. Overwhelmed by the problems and impossibilities, Matthews responds fully neither to the challenge nor to the rewards. But in spite of his he has a subject which in itself redeems the book from its author's shortcomings. Eliot is Matthews's greatest asset...