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TURTLE DIARY Two eccentrics (Glenda Jackson and Ben Kingsley) rescue a pair of tortoises from imprisonment at the London zoo. Harold Pinter writes comedy without wasting sentiment, John Irvin directs it without wasting motion...
Texas Commerce was the first bank in the state to line up a long-distance partner. For its part, Chemical was eager for a presence in the Sunbelt. Quipped Texas Commerce Chairman Ben Love, a friend of Chemical Chairman Walter Shipley's for 20 years: "You could say the chemistry was right." Still, Texas Commerce has been hurt by bad loans to energy companies and real estate developers. Chemical plans to help Texas Commerce expand consumer lending, an area in which the New York bank has more expertise...
...This is the most fun we've had since Watergate," Ben Bradlee, the Washington Post's top editor then and now, was quoted as saying. In the liberal New Republic, Editor Michael Kinsley wrote, "The only irritating aspect of the otherwise delightful collapse of the Reagan Administration is the widespread insistence that we must all be poker-faced about it . . . C'mon, everybody, admit it. We're high." A few days later Kinsley turned up in the Wall Street Journal, whose editorial page primly savages Reagan's critics and sometimes finds Reagan insufficiently a Reaganaut. Kinsley noted gleefully that...
Backs: Paul Caligiuri (UCLA), Ben Okaroh (B.U.), Steve Trittshuh (Southern III.-Edwardsville...
...formed a partnership with his protege, Ben Barnes, 48, a former Lieutenant Governor. With an initial investment of about $5 million apiece, the two men borrowed millions more to finance the construction of office buildings, shopping centers and luxury condos. Bankers practically threw money at them, and the two supremely confident former politicians readily signed personal guarantees for a variety of construction loans. "He was so persuasive and charming he could make you believe day was night," says Roger Chapman, a former business partner. In just three years Connally and Barnes built up their assets to a high...