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...Catholic. There is also Iowa's Governor Harold Hughes, 42, a Methodist and an able, attractive campaigner, who is an acknowledged leader of Midwestern Democratic Governors and who, coincidentally enough, was an overnight guest in the White House last week just before all of the vice-presidential flutter started...
...donations" from terrified businessmen. Even Duvalier's own henchmen live in mortal fear. Using Haiti's pervasive voodoo mysticism, Duvalier has set himself up as the pseudo religion's top practitioner, and fearsome tales that he performs ghoulish rites on severed vital organs of his enemies flutter like bats through Port-au-Prince...
Talons & Nooses. From February to May, when the Lorn Ta-Phao wind blows from the southwest, the sky above Bangkok resembles a vast aerial Disneyland. Long (up to 25 ft.), hinged kites, shaped like kraits and cobras, wriggle sinuously in the breeze. Peacock and butterfly kites flutter their iridescent wings; owls roll their eyes, and paper hawks wheel and dive. Thai boys get their first kites about the same age that U.S. youngsters get their first baseball gloves, and most of them dream about growing up to be another Poon Yuvaniyom, who is the closest thing to a Mickey Mantle...
...Tons. With their stock cheaper and more plentiful after a split, most companies usually find themselves with more stockholders. They like this because widely scattered ownership gives more stability to the stock price and allows it to reflect the company's earnings performance more precisely, rather than to flutter at every new headline. In addition, a split gives the company a wider base on which to draw for new capital. A.T. & T. is raising $1.2 billion by giving its 2,250,000 stockholders the right to buy additional shares of its common stock at a special price. Such companies...
...showed the dichotomy between the monochrome meandering of his somnolent mind and the colorful mask of his own waking self. In Easter and the Totem, he paired a budding lily with a brown bullet totem that juts into the canvas from the left. He painted The Deep, a blinding flutter of butterfly wings which gape apart to reveal a fissure roiling like some hellish furnace. It was a fiery glimmer into...