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...after the sale of Curtis' Lock Haven, Pa., paper mill earlier this year. "We are over the hill," says the vice chairman of Boston's First National Bank, Serge Semenenko, the financier who put together a $35 million loan for Curtis in 1963 and has been riding herd on the company ever since. "The first phase has ended," Semenenko says. "That was to save the company. The second phase is about to begin: an infusion of talent, brains, funds; possible acquisitions; relations with others...
Author Josephy offers one final, even more disillusioning fact: despite all his bullet nicks and his sadly beautiful words, Chief Joseph was not a warrior at heart. During the Nez Perce war, he left most of the fighting to his subchiefs. He looked after the women, children and a herd of horses...
Kulcu's Hip-Huggers. At the cheap end of the spectrum is Manhattan's Kuku shop, which opened last month especially to ride herd on the new four-footed fad. For $390, Kuku will part with a harebrained outfit consisting of rabbit hip-huggers in black-and-white checks, topped with a rabbit halter and black-and-white striped jacket. For slightly more, a girl can pick up a striking Indian-kid coat that is shaped like a sailor's pea jacket, or an imitation-cheetah walking suit made of calfskin...
...three-cornered war. But Peking kept up the threat of future trouble by demanding the immediate return of "two kidnaped Tibetans, 800 sheep and 59 yaks." India, of course, denied everything from dismantling to yaknaping. And in New Delhi, a mob promptly marched on the Chinese Embassy, leading a herd of sheep bearing placards that read: "Eat me, but save the world...
...into ground emplacements, poured a heavy fire into the massed Pakistani tanks. Support fire rained down from Indian 3.7 howitzers. With the temperature in the 100s, the buttoned-down tanks were like ovens; the dust clouds raised by the explosions blinded the tankers, which milled about like a frightened herd...