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DIED. Serge Semenenko, 76, banker and corporation "doctor" whose flair as an arranger of controversial rescue loans gave his career an aura of drama and mystery; in New York City. The Russian-born financier, who rose from $25-a-week credit clerk to vice chairman of the First National Bank of Boston, was an improbable Bostonian. He traveled constantly and liked to mix business with pleasure in playgrounds like Acapulco and Cannes...
...small Krahn tribe. He left school after the eleventh grade and joined the army. Last year he took an advanced training course from a U.S. Army special forces detachment in Liberia. Like Flight Lieut. Jerry Rawlings, 33, who led a coup in neighboring Ghana last year, Doe has a flair for the dramatic. During his first TV address as head of state, he wore sunglasses and a well-pressed fatigue uniform with a hand grenade dangling from one pocket. Newly installed in the executive mansion, Doe summoned the ranking U.S. diplomat, Chargé d'Affaires Julius Walker, and sent...
Fashion goes back to school, with a flair...
Leading finance men, including former West German Bundesbank President Otmar Emminger, warn of bad trouble looming ahead. Chase Bank Chairman David Rockefeller says with a nautical flair: "What we see ahead are treacherous economic seas and gale-force financial winds, strong enough to capsize even large, well-manned ships." Former British Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey paints a chilling future in which soaring oil prices could all too easily threaten bankruptcy for entire nations, forcing them to default on loans to Western banks. This, he says, "could bring the whole international banking system crashing down...
...Child." He infuses all of his acoustic work with an honest urgency, conveying the innocence he once knew and the troubles he has weathered. His down-homey harmonica improvisation meshes well with unpretentious guitar and piano arrangements. When backed by the lastest edition of Crazy Horse, Young reveals his flair for the heavy decibels, and shows the rough, untarnished energy of his electric music...