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...Spanish government set about looking for a partner-preferably a U.S. firm that could bring in both capital and technical know-how. In March 1965, bids were solicited from some 30 companies, including British, German and Japanese. Each competitor sought out representatives in Madrid with the best contacts and noblest titles that could be found...
...places where humans somehow survive after death, but as states of mind and modes of being that begin here on earth. As they see it, the world itself is the supreme opportunity for man's fulfillment and salvation, and the afterlife a "spiritual dimension" that emphasizes the noblest traits and aspirations of this life...
...playing college concerts at Yale, Rochester and Oberlin. The highlight at every stop was a broad, impeccably phrased performance of Bruckner's Symphony No. 7. Haitink's carefully reasoned, deeply felt interpretation brought out each secondary melody and delicately balanced the softest shimmer of strings with the noblest blast of brass. Yet, as he built from climax to climax, he never lost sight of the unifying line in the hour-long score. It was not only magnificent music making but also a solid payment on Haitink's credit card...
...asked for $25 million in credit. The bankers, who had advanced him $90 million earlier in the year, demanded to see the company's balance sheet. Then-incredibly-they turned Krupp down. Said Deutsche Bank Chief Executive Hermann Abs, Germany's most powerful banker: "It is the noblest right of the banker to say no when he considers the risk exhausted." Abs next took the problem to Bonn. Schiller stepped in quickly, fearing that a crisis at Krupp (annual sales: $1.2 billion) would deepen Germany's economic downturn...
...have reached one conclusion after reading your latest civil rights blurb. All civil rights marchers plod bravely, with heads held high as befits God's noblest creatures, while surrounded by ignorant, sullen, savage, glowering Mississippians who show resentment and hatred by snarling, cursing, flailing and kicking them. The marchers are protected only by porcine cops who with measured malevolence gas, club and kick them. I wish you paid as much homage to truth as to adjectives...