Word: maes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hoofers. As always in popular art, comedy can get away with more social comment than serious work (just as comedy is the easiest place to hide from social comment). The series instead has concentrated on the direct sexual themes of Dietrich in Shanghai Express, Garbo in Queen Christina, and Mae West in She Done Him Wrong. The last film does, of course, touch on the economics of Miss West and her jewels-this is the film version of her stage success Diamond Lil. And for that matter, there is some doubt about the "seriousness" of Shanghai Express, especially with such...
...movies of Mae West deny "just retribution" on almost every level-the Production Code was set up in 1933 to counter the popularity of her films. Suffice it to say, Mae got away with murder-sometimes literally. But the main difference between her movies and those of Dietrich is in many ways implied by the difference in their physical charms. I was horrified to hear someone behind me at Currier House exclaiming: "Can you imagine they used to think she was beautiful" What he didn't realize is that no one, except Mae West, considered her a sex goddess. Even...
...children here have such beautiful names, like Rutha Mae Mason and Vincent Lee Mendenhall. Most of come from large families of about six to ten children, sometimes 14. They live in shacks out in the fields. Many of them have infected navels and scars on their skin from cuts that did not heal well due to malnutrition. One of the reasons that so many of them have trouble learning is that their brains have not gotten the proper nutrients, perhaps at some critical period in their biological development-not to speak of the obvious detrimental factors of their home...
High-level Help. Most mortgage men like to do business with Fannie Mae, but some argue that the association is overburdened with debt and competes unfairly against private lenders. For example, they contend that the corporation siphons funds from savings banks and savings and loan associations, which are prohibited by regulation from paying as much as Fannie Mae does to attract money from investors. Says Clarence Ostema, a Manhattan mortgage broker: "It is morally wrong for one Government agency to issue a stock when another Government agency, the Federal Reserve, can make it gyrate and allow speculators to make fortunes...
Former Fannie Mae President Raymond Lapin, a prominent California Democrat who was ousted last year by President Nixon, concedes that the low margin requirement on the stock is "a weird arrangement." Still, Lapin maintains that Fannie Mae has become so vital to home building that "if it got into real trouble the Government would have to rush in and bail it out." Considering the increasing political importance of housing, Lapin is probably right. Compared with their chances for a quick killing, Fannie Mae stock speculators are exposed to minimal risk. At a time when Washington may be called...