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...obscene child." His mother Rachel was evidently something of a slut; before taking up with Hamilton's father, she served time in jail on St. Croix for committing adultery-"whoring with everyone," said her husband's complaint in court. Hamilton's father, a feckless romantic and bankrupt merchant, eventually deserted Rachel and their two children-or perhaps, as Flexner thinks, was himself abandoned by Rachel. When Rachel died in 1768, Alexander Hamilton was a child of eleven, virtually alone in the world...
...orders brought delight to beautiful downtown Burbank, Lockheed's headquarters, and to Airbus Industrie's offices in cities across Europe. At Lockheed, which almost went bankrupt a few years ago, partly because of long production delays and lagging sales of the TriStar, happy executives called the Pan Am order for a dozen planes, plus an option for 14 more in the mid-1980s, the "order of the century." Johnson's Bakery, near Lockheed's offices, whipped up a cake with an icing decoration of a high-flying TriStar. Nora Winant, secretary to Richard Taylor, Lockheed...
...separation of heads from torsos. Even when his daughter became engaged, Ditchley couldn't escape from the lawyers; she called one in to help her write a marriage contract; so naturally her fiance got one too. Finally, Ditchley's wife decided to start a career; $50,000 and two bankrupt batik boutiques later, she got into a law school. Now, whenever he tries to strike up a conversation with her, she mutters things like "Deponent sayeth not. " But Ditchley is sending Junior to law school too, damn the expense. A good father, he figures, does not send his son into...
...discussing whether they'd go again if they had the chance to do it over. One guy explains why he would, much to the disbelief of his companions, and much of the rest of the movie is devoted to showing why his reasons, and the assumptions behind them, are bankrupt. But the underlying question is what can we do to end the ignorance, misperceptions, and repressions--all exemplified by Dern's Marine captain character--that got us there in the first place. Those who see this as a rather dated question need only consider the initial reaction of the Veterans...
...market, and Kodak's stock has plunged from a 1973 high of 151¾ to last week's 42⅛. What is more, Berkey's is not the only suit Kodak is contesting. Others have been filed by Pavelle, a tiny New Jersey firm that went bankrupt in 1975, and by GAF. There also is evidence that the Justice Department may be preparing an antitrust suit against the company...