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...side, some American and European financiers contemplated seizing Polish bank accounts, ships or airliners if the Warsaw government fails to make a $500 million interest payment by the end of the year. If just one of the banks started to grab Polish assets, it could set off a dash for cash that would threaten the stability of international banking by calling down an avalanche of lawsuits, tightening credit around the world, and perhaps causing some financial failures. On the other side, the Polish foreign trade bank stalled for time, hoping to force the banks, which have already lent the Poles...
Mimi and her parents dash out of the dining room before the champagne is gone to get into the receiving line. Mal Fitch and his twelve-piece band, fixtures on the Dallas debutante scene, strike up some Glenn Miller. The guests snake out of the ballroom, through the foyer, to the front door, where fleets of limousines are still depositing the newly arrived. The men emerge crisp in white or black tie; the women are elegant in gowns of every description, occasionally worn under the pelt of some endangered species...
...greater extent than Reagan and his advisers may have realized themselves, the Administration's early dash and decisiveness, and its string of astonishing congressional victories, derived from the momentum of the campaign. Reagan entered the White House with a clear-cut set of positions that in his mind (and the minds of many cowed opponents) had been ratified by his sweeping election victory. The agenda?cut social spending, slash taxes, start a big military buildup, voice a stern anti-Soviet line in foreign affairs?was set. The priorities were clear: get the budget and tax cuts through Congress before anything...
Marjorie Scharoun and Mariquita "Skeets" Patterson, both freshmen, should turn heads this year. Coach Pappy Hunt feels that Scharoun has the potential to be as good as Kathy Rice--who holds Harvard's dash record--and that Patterson's contributions to the hurdles, long jump, and dash will be invaluable...
Sophomore Kathy Busby could also grab a few headlines this winter. Cut from the lacrosse team last year, Busby came out for the track squad with no previous training and by the end of the season had taken the school's 100-meter dash record...