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...staff director of the Banking Committee in 1981, Wall drafted the industry's dream deregulation bill, the Garn-St. Germain Act. That law created a new breed of thrift operator. In came highflyers like Keating who shifted their depositors' money (now insured for $100,000 instead of $40,000) from unexciting residential mortgages to potentially more lucrative but indisputably riskier shopping malls, resort developments, energy-generating windmills. The new breed awarded themselves seven-digit salaries, private jets, hunting preserves and yachts on which to entertain members of Congress. Keating and his associates took $21 million from Lincoln even...
...pantheon of 43 Paris- based designers who may show at the Louvre. The French buzzed and clucked at the outrageousness of the new upstart. After all, who but Kelly could boast that only eight years ago he was peddling his clothes on the sidewalk of the Boulevard St.-Germain, calling out to passersby in a Mississippi drawl, "Tres chic! Pas cher!"? Now he's selling on four continents. "Patrick is refreshing because he isn't trying to be divine," says Mary Ann Wheaton, who runs Kelly's worldwide operations...
Rhode Island's Fernand St. Germain, chairman of the powerful House Banking Committee and a 1987 target of a House ethics investigation, lost his bid for a 15th term to attorney Ronald K. Machtley. Last month a Justice Department document disclosed "evidence of serious and sustained misconduct" in St. Germain's dealings with a lobbyist...
...late years, Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas was chatting in his studio with one of his few friends and many admirers, the English painter Walter Richard Sickert. When they decided to visit a cafe, young Sickert got ready to summon a horse-drawn cab. Degas objected. "Personally, I don't like cabs. You don't see anyone. That's why I love to ride on the omnibus -- you can look at people. We were created to look at one another, weren't we?" No passing remark could take you closer to the heart of 19th century realism: the idea...
Critics charge that the Government is getting robbed. Democrat Fernand J. St. Germain of Rhode Island, chairman of the House Banking Committee, accused the Bank Board last week of simply giving American Savings to Bass without seriously entertaining a competing bid from First Nationwide Bank, a San Francisco-based subsidiary of Ford Motor. And Democratic Senator Donald Riegle of Michigan is worried that Bass might use money from the federally supported S and L to unfairly augment his corporate-raiding power. The Bank Board's chairman, M. Danny Wall, defends his bailout, calling it the best deal the Government could...