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...buyouts has raised fears that companies may be crushed by their huge debts if interest rates climb or the economy falls into a recession. Other critics call going private a waste of scarce capital. "As a financier, I regard it as an easy way to get rich," says Martin Whitman, president of M.J. Whitman & Co., a Manhattan investment firm. "But as a citizen who loves his country, I think there are better and more productive uses of the nation's money supply than to create debt to pay off stockholders...
Meanwhile, officials of Jeffrey Martin Inc., the company that makes the appetite-suppressant candy Ayds, claim they have no trouble with their product's name. The company reports that sales of Ayds were up slightly for the fiscal year that ended July 31. Says Frank DiPrima, executive vice president of Jeffrey Martin: "This product has been named Ayds for more than 45 years. Let the disease change its name." INVESTMENTS Abdul-Jabbar's Tall Story...
They first performed together in the 1946 production of Lute Song. Critics praised Mary Martin but took little note of a young actress named Nancy Davis. Last week Nancy D. Reagan returned to the Broadway stage to pay tribute, along with Robert Preston, Lillian Gish, Carol Channing and Helen Hayes, to Martin, and the response this time was thunderous applause. The First Lady instantly won over the capacity audience by announcing, "I'm a little out of my element. I really don't go around the White House singing." Then, her clear alto voice quavering a bit, she began...
DIED. James Groppi, 54, former Roman Catholic priest and civil rights activist who marched in Selma, Ala., with Martin Luther King Jr., led at least 200 marches for open housing in Milwaukee and was arrested more than a dozen times for his protests; of brain cancer; in Milwaukee. When Groppi left the priesthood in 1976 to marry a fellow activist, he was excommunicated from the church. He later worked as a bus driver and in 1983 became president of his city's transit-union local. He once told an interviewer, "Agitate, agitate, agitate is my motto...
...They're called movies, you know, not chatties or peo-plies." L.A. does move, notably in a brutal, bloated car-chase sequence pilfered from Friedkin's nifty The French Connection. In his God's-eye-view shots and acrobatic love scenes, he also pays tribute to the styles of Martin Scorsese and MTV. So the villain, Counterfeiter Willem Dafoe, is no more rotten or less picturesque than the hero, William Petersen. So everybody stinks. It matters not when, like Friedkin, you have fashioned a fetid movie hybrid: Miami Vile...