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...pulls into a Holiday Inn in Battle Creek, Mich. It has been traveling all night from Peoria, 111. Several band members drag themselves into the clean sheets of the hotel. Dolly sleeps on the bus until 2:30 p.m. She appears in the hotel dining room looking perfect and is promptly mobbed. A woman named Ruby asks for Dolly's autograph. Dolly signs. An hour and many autographs later, Ruby gets up to leave. Dolly yells, "Bye, Ruby. Have a nice day." Ruby is radiant...
...burden of explaining the story to the crowd while acting it out at the same time. Bonsey is on the stage through the entire play, and makes the production flow well from one adventure to another. His acting is convincing enough, but at times his lines seem to drag on with the same tone and intensity. He does, however, manage to really become his character, interacting with the other players and the audience enough to rivet the attention of the audience. Bonsey's forte is physical movement. His movements are continual and ever-changing. His facial expressions range from...
...telephone call: "How quickly can you get over here?" George Hall made it so quickly that he has not yet had time to turn in his ID card and parking permit at the Pentagon, where he was a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense. "I have never tried to drag a retinue around with me," says Schlesinger. "I think they should be more interested in their work than in following me around...
...many would know how to handle these two Manor moon women. "What could I do?" Sampson asked. "I had to run after them, drag them down, and bring them out of it. And afterwards, they didn't have the slightest notion of what they had been doing. Great place, that Manor...
INVESTMENT CREDIT. The committee voted overwhelmingly to give businessmen at least a chance to take a tax credit of 12% on purchases of new plant and equipment, v. 10% now. The increase is badly needed: sluggish business investment is probably the biggest drag on the economy, and while the rise in the credit would be small, it has become a symbolic issue in the eyes of many executives. But the House, in a misguided effort to spur employment, turned it down in favor of a "jobs tax credit": 40% of a newly hired worker's wages...