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...autumn of our ennui...
High interest rates have been the company's biggest headache. With consumer demand weak, and unsold Wurlitzers gathering dust in warehouses, the company has had to borrow heavily to finance its inventories, driving up total debt to a current level of $24.5 million. Last autumn, the firm defaulted on a restructuring agreement involving $30 million worth of debt obligations with its major creditor, the First National Bank of Chicago. Meanwhile, Wurlitzer's net worth has shriveled to about $20.7 million, and bankers worry whether there would be very much to recover if the company were to default again...
...strolls across this hauntingly lovely campus in the beginnings of the great Southern autumn, it is difficult to conceive the chaos and mayhem of Sept. 30, 1962-the gunshots and burning vehicles, the bricks and tear-gas canisters, the federal marshals and National Guardsmen and airborne troops confronting the mob. Two people died, and scores were injured. It was the last battle of the Civil War, the last direct constitutional crisis between national and state authority. James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran, was enrolled as an Ole Miss student the next day. As a native Mississippian, I think...
...have chosen my path. It is the path of my conviction, built on justice and fairness. It makes provision for the maintenance of civilized Christian standards in which South Africans can find each other, without destroying each other. " The next test of voter sentiment will come this autumn when by-elections are held in three more districts...
...began suddenly, in the autumn of 1979. Young homosexual men with a history of promiscuity started showing up at the medical clinics of New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco with a bizarre array of ailments. Some had Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, a deadly disease rarely seen except in drug-weakened cancer and transplant patients. Others bore the purplish skin lesions of Kaposi's sarcoma, a cancer that is usually confined to elderly men of Mediterranean extraction and young males in Equatorial Africa. Still others had developed strange fungal infections or other rare cancers. All had one thing...