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...bothered me that somebody who had delivered such a blow to the civic community should have his name on a list of Harvard Award recipients," De Huff said yesterday. "The Sun-Times has already deteriorated drastically since Murdoch took it over...
...color. It shows two disgraceful pink porkers lazily building themselves shacks out of straw. A wolf blows their houses down. The lazy pigs have a more industrious brother who has just completed a brick mansion, in which he allows them to take refuge. When the wolf attempts to huff & puff this house down, he fails ignominiously. He then tries to climb down the chimney. The lazy pigs are alarmed. The industrious pig builds a roaring fire, singes the wolf's tail...
...head. After assignments in Bolivia and Spain, he returned to New York and built the company's lucrative oil-trading department. He made a killing during the 1973 Arab oil embargo, but the company declined to pay the seven-figure commission he demanded and he left in a huff. With partner Pincus ("Pinky") Green, a fellow Wunderkind trader from Philbro, he established his own firm with headquarters in Zug, an Alpine town 14 miles south of the financial center of Zurich...
...channel had more than its share of premier-week problems. One director resigned in a huff because a series was "full of language I would not use in front of my own children." There was a protest demonstration by members of the Deaf and Dumb Broadcasting Campaign because the channel has no plans for captioned programming. Meanwhile, the actors' union ordered its 30,000 thespians not to appear on any commercials destined for the new channel, which cannot afford the handsome residual rates paid...
WITH AN impressive huff and a puff, House Democrats last week cleared the latest Reagan smokescreen: a proposed Constitutional amendment mandating a balanced budget. Administration foes claimed a victory, but their actions may well prove costly as the final month of election campaigning gets underway...