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...fair maiden of their dreams never...
...After a maiden British tour with Bo Diddley, the Stones released their first album in 1964. It countered the early Beatles' cheerful harmonies with a rough-edged interpretation of what Jagger. Richards and Jones imagined America sounded like. Dominated by covers of American hits. The Rolling Stones, prepared critics and fans for the Stones first big single, "Not Fade Away," an aging Buddy Holly rattler which Richards souped up Chicago style...
...Kinokawa Mam, a 92,207-ton ore carrier, pulled out of Tokyo harbor last week on its maiden voyage to Australia. When Captain Yukio Imai wanted to change speed, he did not order a crew member to yank the traditional brass-handled lever. Instead, he spoke through a microphone to the ship's computerized engine control, which has a voice synthesizer and recognition device developed by Japan's Sodensha Electronics Ltd. The control device can comprehend eleven verbal commands, from "Full ahead" to "Full astern," given by the captain or two of his officers. To show that...
That leaves creditors with only the honeyed tongue of someone like Gary Golditch, 31, manager of the Financial Collection Agencies in Maiden, Mass., who calls himself "a diplomat." The key thing, says Golditch, is not to let the debtor hang up. Start by being polite: "I'm sorry to inconvenience you but..." Impress on the debtor his moral responsibility: "You received the merchandise you wanted, but my client has not been paid ..." Golditch calls these opening gambits a means of "captivating" the debtor. "After that, I'm sure you'd talk with me," he says, leaning back...
Financial Collection Agencies has 85 branches around the world, and Golditch's Maiden office reaches out over much of New England. It takes on about 45,000 cases a year, involving $20 million, and recovers about 20% to 30%, of which it may keep as much as 50%. Once Golditch has "captivated" his quarry, he proposes various forms of payment to his client-like a new credit-card loan, or a co-signed bank note. "I will never advise anyone to incur debt they can't handle," he says, "but I have a moral commitment to work...