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...banks often seek the highest-priced insurance they can find in order to increase their dividends. Prior to 1965, they report, Bank of America got insurance from Prudential at 37? per $100 of coverage; then Prudential raised its prices 65%, to 61? per $100, "at the bank's behest...
...most improbable presidential aspirant yet to surface, freewheeling Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, did a bit of preliminary campaigning last week in New Hampshire at the behest of arch-conservative Newspaper Publisher William Loeb. At Manchester's Memorial High School, a senior named Kathy Sullivan disconcerted Yorty with a devastating question: "Los Angeles has serious problems with poverty, pollution, crime and racism. You have been there a long time. How do we know that the U.S. won't become one big Los Angeles if you are elected...
...unlikely that any major enterprise was ever undertaken without an expert arguing conclusively that it would not succeed. At the behest of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, a panel of Spanish sages looked at Columbus' plan for a voyage to the Indies, and in 1490 came up with six good reasons why it was impossible. So many centuries after the creation, they concluded triumphantly, it was unlikely that anyone could find hitherto unknown lands of any value. This negative reaction was similar to the learned argument that greeted Galileo when he reported that Jupiter had moons. "Jupiter...
...imparts some remarkable tale. Sure enough, he finds a strange old man there named Monk Hesseltine who quivers at the mention of Bechuanaland and turns white at the sight of a truffle. When Hesseltine is murdered by a poisoned arrow, Perelman becomes involved in his mysterious past at the behest of Hesseltine's beauteous neice, Cosima. Needless to say, Perelman solves the mystery, which involves vengeful Bushmen and blackmail of the French truffle industry, and gets the beautiful Cosima...
...Lebanon's behest, the United Nations Security Council met quickly to consider censuring Israel. Lost on none was the fact that Israel had gone into Lebanon for much the same reason that the U.S. had gone into Cambodia -to clean out enemy sanctuaries. This put the U.S. in an uncomfortable diplomatic position. Secretary of State William P. Rogers admitted at his Washington press conference that military action was regrettable, but he added: "You have to consider the causes." The Security Council nevertheless flatly turned down a U.S. amendment critical of all parties to the Israel-Lebanon dispute. Only Britain...