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...single five-day period. Then last week it nearly tripled that by entering 100,000 accounts. Merrill Lynch helped stimulate business by holding last-minute seminars in New York, Chicago and 70 other cities to explain the various kinds of IRAs. In the offices of the E.F. Mutton brokerage firm last week, $20 million per day went into new accounts. Said Gary Strum, head of pension services: "We have done a helluva lot of business...
...daytime CBS stand-by The Guiding Light, is invading the evening hours. In May, it will be offering half a dozen of Guiding Light's regular hands in the TV movie The Cradle Will Fall. Making the whole production look a little glossier is Lauren Mutton, 38. Her presence in Nashville, where the production was being shot, certainly dazzled Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander, 42, who named Hutton an honorary "Colonel Aide-de-Camp of the Governor's Staff." The actress one-upped the hokum. Replied she: "Well, Governor, where is the camp...
...brightly painted clapboard houses are heated with bricks of black peat stored in sheds near kitchen doors, and Land Rovers are the most popular means of transportation. The largest store is run by the Falkland Islands Co., which owns more than 43% of the land and employs 240 workers. Mutton, delivered to homes twice a week, is still referred to as "the 365," meaning that people roast it and stew it and chew it 365 days a year. One happy result of the war is that the Falklanders decided to start a weekly newspaper, the Penguin News. Another welcome consequence...
Then there's the voices. They didn't use Australian actors-not many lurking in L.A., I suppose, and you can't have Peter Allen chewing the ram-stag mutton and pretending to be a jackaroo. So they all talk either Ma Maison Irish or Rodeo Drive pommy. Not a trace of Strine from magpie to mopoke until Bryan Brown (who plays Luke, the shearer Meggie marries when she can't get her priest) looms up on the horizon, picking the damper crumbs from his Great Whites with a stringybark sapling...
...stag mutton, n.: old, tough meat...