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...Washington Post reported recently that an Arab bid to invest $100 million in Lockheed Aircraft Corp., made this spring, was rejected by the company, even though it needed the cash. Arab investors suspect the deal was quashed by the White House. An Iranian bid to lend Grumman Corp. a similar sum was vetoed in August...
...they have placed their wealth largely in government securities and short-term, easy-to-withdraw deposits at a few major banks. But now the banks, worried about having so much "hot money" that they cannot safely lend longterm, are either refusing to take more short-term or demand deposits or are offering lower interest for them...
...number which brought the first act to a close: a group of young (aged 6-14?) black kids from Manhattan joined Labelle on stage to lend their smiling faces and beautiful voices to a crescendo of emotional outpouring--a chorus of love and hope for the future. The sight of those three ladies singing with and to and for the children, sharing their microphones with individual kids, hugging them, standing arm in arm in comradeship, brought me and several others to tears. Could you find this "in Times Square on any given Saturday night...
...never failed him; he wore his Porcellian chain prominently at his trial. In the last weeks before his indictment, Whitney asked hundreds of people for loans--usually requesting "a hundred" meaning $100,000--even from lower-grade Stock Exchange employees who had nowhere near that kind of money to lend...
...song's crapulous ambiance was supported by the sluggish, drawn out tempo of the Dixieland horn section and Davies's possibly unintentional slurring of the lyrics (by that time he had quite a bit to drink). Since the previously established snail's pace of the tune did not lend itself to a final ritard, the tune did not lend itself in the only way possible--the band itself literally falling headlong onto the stage. The band did one final number, "Good Golly Miss Molly," which featured some highly impressive guitar work on the part of brother Dave. The audience...