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...want people 50 or 100 years from now to look back and say that we here, today, sat back and allowed this city to die?" That question was posed last week by Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn as he and other defenders of New York's fiscal integrity fought their most desperate battle so far to keep the city from defaulting. Such a default could have potentially grave consequences for many other city governments. Against the odds, Rohatyn & Co. appeared to be prevailing−temporarily. A plan patched together by Governor Hugh Carey and the Municipal Assistance Corporation...
...billion for fiscal 1976. Even so, his reductions may not suffice to encourage investors to buy the $4 billion in notes the city will have to market before the end of the year to meet its pressing short-term debt. "I don't know," mused Investment Banker Felix G. Rohatyn, one of the members of the new Municipal Assistance Corporation (Big Mac). "It may be enough. You can't be sure." Adds Controller Harrison ("Jay") Goldin: "The mayor has taken some very important steps. I think other things may be necessary...
...favorites among the pros: Federated Department Stores, Sears and other retail chains that stand to benefit from an upsurge in consumer spending as inflation abates, purchasing power increases and the recovery gains momentum. Lately many mutual and pension fund managers have been looking kindly on new stock issues. Says Felix Juda, a Los Angeles broker who specializes in trading for professional money managers: "In the past few weeks, the institutions have become very heavy buyers of new offerings...
...literally, with murder. Civil libertarians, on the other hand, protest that bargains enable the state to get convictions in shaky cases. With serious criminals apparently getting off too lightly and the innocent sometimes getting shafted, plea bargaining has a deservedly disastrous public image and clearly violates the precept of Felix Frankfurter that "justice must satisfy the appearance of justice...
Died. Marion Frankfurter, 84, wife of the late Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter and a shrewd judge of issues and personalities in her own right; in a Washington, D.C., nursing home. A witty, no-nonsense Massachusetts girl, Marion Frankfurter was the editor of many of her husband's nonjudicial writings. Never shy about deflating the sometimes pedantic and opinionated Justice when circumstances seemed to call for it, she once cracked that "there are only two things wrong with Felix's speeches: he digresses and he returns to the subject." Crippled with arthritis and in need of constant, expensive...