Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...money on short terms to would-be house buyers who could not get mortgage financing elsewhere. Witkin Homes in Denver guarantees buyers who balk at today's high interest rates that they can refinance their mortgages once within the next three years if rates drop. Homewood Corp. of Columbus will give a buyer free paint for his new house, then deduct from the down payment the labor cost of spreading it on the walls...
...Paper Chase compare the film with The Graduate, Goodbye Columbus, Summer of '42, and The Last Picture Show. It's a pretentious, if typical, PR device. There are moments when the film seems as though it belongs in such fast company, but they are rare and due almost entirely to flashes of superb acting from Houseman and Bottoms. (Bottoms, says Bridges, is one of the few actors so expressive that you can film his thoughts...
That forceful defense is typical of his professional pride and manner. Born in Philadelphia and a Marine in World War II, Petersen earned a B.A. from Georgetown University and a law degree from Catholic University's Columbus Law School. He began Government service as a clerk for the FBI 25 years ago, shifted to the Justice Department in 1951, and has climbed steadily throughout his career there. Associates describe him as tough as nails...
that for an Indian to claim the discovery of Italy would be as logical as Christopher Columbus' claim to have discovered America. After all, argues Lucky Eagle, America was there all along...
Meanwhile, Columbus was back, after a fashion, in the New World. Two small crystal lockets containing some of the dust from his Spanish grave were up for auction at Manhattan's Sotheby Parke-Bernet. The pair is expected to bring...