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...directors of the First National Bank of Chicago fired both its abrasive chairman, Robert Abboud, 50, and its obstinate deputy chairman, Harvey Kapnick, 54, after their short but stormy tenure together and sharp earnings slumps. On the same day, First Pennsylvania Bank announced that it was to receive a mammoth $1.5 billion loan package from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and 25 private banks, the largest rescue package ever put together to save an American financial institution from bankruptcy. In the case of First Penn, though, the executive exit had already taken place. Last July, John Bunting, 54, resigned under...
...Viet Nam War, rescued crew members of the Mayaguez, who had been seized by Cambodian Communists, and flew in the commandos who raided the San Tay P.O.W. camp in North Viet Nam. The honor roll is long and distinguished for the Sikorsky S-65 series of helicopters, a mammoth, 25-ton rotary-blade airship that in its various versions, including the affectionately named Jolly Green Giant, has been one of the most dependable workhorses for the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force...
...hours of oral arguments, attorneys for the plaintiff called the law a "mammoth piece of legislation...awesome in its magnitude," and complained that property owners were deprived of their right to dispose of their property as they wished under...
...cast isn't mammoth, but the costumes are-prehistoric animal skins. The dialogue consists of 14 words. That's Caveman, shooting in Mexico and starring Ringo Starr. The film is a campy comedy about cavemen who between club fights make such momentous discoveries as fried eggs, cooked meat and gay sex. Lack of lines doesn't bother Ringo, who has made plenty of wordy but forgettable flicks since the Beatles broke up. "It's far more creative to be able to transmit all these feelings without words," says he, adjusting skins far different from those...
...something that sounded like a muffled explosion." So recalled one of the numbed but fortunate few who were plucked from the icy North Sea last week after the worst oil rig disaster in the history of offshore drilling. Battered by towering 25-ft. waves and 55-knot winds, a mammoth floating dormitory housing 212 oil workers capsized and plunged into the sea, 100 miles west of the Norwegian coast...