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...aboard his chartered plane-appropriately, a de Havilland Dove-the Governor went straight to the William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak to pick up his wife Lenore, who had suffered a broken arm and dislocated shoulder two days earlier when she slipped in the shower at the Romneys' Bloomfield Hills home. For reasons that go beyond personal affection, Romney's aides are hoping she mends swiftly. Lenore is a considerable asset on the stump, provides a warmly feminine counterpoint to her husband's granite-jawed, combative style, and helps calm him when the going gets rough...
...Detroit banking to decide that it was too conservative. By drawing on his own inheritance from a grandfather and tapping friends, Parsons got together $650,000 and mounted a challenge to Detroit bankers within their own 25mile limit. In a small Birmingham office building, he founded the Birmingham-Bloomfield Bank. It may not have looked like much, but it had Saturday banking for suburbanites, lower charges on checking accounts, and it paid 3% on savings rather than the general 1%. As a result, the Birmingham-Bloomfield Bank blossomed from $3,000,000 in assets to $100 million. Parsons decided...
...Buckley substance is forgiven for the Buckley style. "He is as brilliant an adversary as he is bankrupt an advocate," says Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. To M.I.T. Political Science Professor Lincoln P. Bloomfield, "he is an exceedingly witty, attractive and rather insidious spokesman for a point of view for which I have few sympathies. But if we don't want to die of sheer boredom, the Buckleys should be encouraged." Buckley offers his own well-considered self-analysis: "I feel I qualify spiritually and philosophically as a conservative, but temperamentally I am not of the breed...
...Eric Clapton, 22, the rangy, intense spokesman for the group, is a superbly soulful and compelling guitarist. His voicelike "woman tone" moans, shouts or sends out sudden, stabbing cries, the vibrato quivering like a spear that has found its mark. Such top U.S. rock guitarists as Mike Bloomfield and Jerry Garcia rank him the best in the world...
...locker rooms of the Detroit Athletic Club, and at the 19th hole of the Bloomfield Hills Country Club, the guessing game has been going on for months. Who will move up when General Motors Chairman Frederic G. Donner steps down...