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DIED. Eddie Jackson, 84, gravel-voiced singer and comedian who wowed 'em in nightclubs and on TV shows, often in partnership with Jimmy Durante; in Los Angeles. The high-stepping Jackson's career first flourished during Prohibition, when he teamed with Durante and Dancer Lou Clayton in a famous horseplay-and-patter act that played Manhattan hotspots and speakeasies. He was celebrated as much for his rasping renditions of classics like Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home? as for his mastery of the top hat-tipping dance form called strutting. "Nobody struts no more...
...rocketing cost of petroleum pushes electrical utility rates further and further into orbit, "windmill power" is becoming a good bet. In Clayton, N. Mex., 15% of the town's residents now receive their electricity from a giant propeller-like windmill that swivels on a horizontal axis to capture the prevailing winds. In the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, retired Businessman Percy Newbery, 58, is generating an average of $30 worth of electricity per month by means of a windmill device that looks like a jet engine and sits on a 75-ft. wooden pole beside his house. In Hawaii, Puerto...
...weeks ago, Brilab produced its first indictments when a Houston grand jury accused Texas Speaker of the House Billy Clayton of accepting $5,000 from Hauser's operation in return for contracts. Clayton has denied the charge and says he will drop out of his re-election race only if found guilty...
...years ago, Clayton McKenzie, 37, began his venture after realizing that the high cost of buying cows was limiting business for many dairymen. Local banks normally charge an initial down payment of 30% on a loan for the purchase of a cow, while farmers renting one lay out only 6% of the cost. After starting with a two-man operation, McKenzie last year needed a bank of computers and 30 employees to keep track of around 50,000 head leased to farmers in 25 states. Sales totaled $20 million...
...laughing and waving their programs in the humid evening air. They overflowed from the pews onto folding chairs; they stood on windowsills, squeezed into doorways and gathered in the street outside. Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church had not seen such a festive crowd since the days when Adam Clayton Powell Jr. sounded forth from the pulpit. Last week the pulpit had given way to a specially built wooden stage, and what sounded forth was the New York Philharmonic...