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...Quick Profit. What gave Moses even more power was the fact that the city was going broke. Because Triborough had money-an endless stream of toll receipts-the authority could float new bonds and become New York's big builder. Powerful men came as suppliants to Moses. Leaders of the building trades unions wanted jobs-thousands of jobs. Moses could provide them...
...thinking of Rockefeller was given even before Richard Nixon left the White House. Ford's old House associate Melvin Laird, now a Reader's Digest executive, announced that he supported Rocky for Vice President if Ford took over as President. Though Ford had not asked Laird to float the trial balloon, he did nothing to stop...
When Haldeman advised the President that Britain had decided to let the pound float, and that the Italian lira was also in serious trouble, Nixon displayed remarkable casualness...
...Channel Hops. In Britain, another group of engineers has formed Air-float Transport Ltd. to promote the "Airfloat HL" (for heavy-lift), designed by Surrey University Mechanical Engineer Edwin Mowforth. A VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) model, it could carry a load of up to 400 tons and move it more than 1,000 miles at about 90 m.p.h. Airfloat's hull shape is conventional, and its propulsion depends upon old-fashioned propellers turned by ten turbines. Eight of them are amidships for forward drive and are also capable of exerting a vertical thrust of 40 tons. There...
...sack" of the '60s, St. Laurent's Naive Chemise features more elegant tailoring, arm-length sleeves with tightly buttoned cuffs, high necklines and low, mid-calf hems. "For me, the chemise is an expression of freedom," said Libertarian Yves. "I wanted to make the fabric float over and just caress the body in a sensual way." The pathfinder who helped lead women to long pants some six years ago offered some manly trouser suits for evening wear, but it was clear that in Paris at least, pants were approaching the passe. Reported Women's Wear Daily: "Yves...