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Commercial composers knock out as many as six full-length scores a year, along with other assignments. For a 110-minute feature film they allow between six and eight weeks. A 90-minute TV movie can be polished off in two weeks. Jerry Goldsmith, 46, a veteran of some 65 films, churned out the music for Chinatown in ten days...
...short-term money-at which individuals decide to buy higher-yielding Government and commercial securities instead of putting their spare cash into savings accounts, where rates of return are limited by law. Such a development, says President Maurice Mann of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, "would knock housing on its back again before it even got up." Housing starts rose a heartening 14% in July from June, but a continued revival of the industry depends on an ample supply of mortgage money. The cash in the loan drawers of the nation's savings and loan associations...
After the prisoner's testimony, many spectators expected a quick verdict. Indeed, three minutes after the jury left the courtroom to deliberate, Judge Hamilton Hobgood was giving a folksy thank-you speech to lawyers and reporters when he was interrupted by a knock on the door. But instead of a verdict, it was a juror with a question: "Where's the sugar for the coffee?" No matter. It took the six white and six black jurors only 1 hr. and 25 min. to reach the obvious decision: not guilty...
Maggie is sitting on the floor of her room, her back to the window that overlooks the courtyard where the team can be seen coming back from the river. The "Sleeping" sign is no longer on her door, but she can't hear anyone knock because her hair dryer makes so much noise. Her hair is flowing down her shoulders, clean and wavy and blonde, and her light blue eyes peer out from under it with a soft, sad look in them...
...were betting that Cairo would back down, partly because of fail-safe ambiguities in Fahmy's letter, partly because they are convinced that Egypt is not remotely prepared for another war. Jerusalem even suspected that Fahmy was a straw man setting up the issue so that Sadat could knock it down...