Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The footage that covers the early years is rare (some of it never seen before) and so red-hot that subsequent performers run the risk of coming off like contestants in a charade contest. Dylan, the Stones, the Beatles, the Who all carry the weight of tradition with ease. But...
The oil companies argue that the federal controls on gas prices that were imposed during the fuel panic touched off by the 1973 oil embargo discourage investment in new refineries because the return on investment is too low when compared with that produced by other operations. As supplies diminish, more...
Southwest Bank in St. Louis is no financial leviathan, but its starchy chairman, Isaac Long, 79, likes to throw his weight around when it comes to interest rates. In 1974 Long's bank (assets: $150 million) became the first in the nation to cut rates after nearly a year...
"I gravitate toward people with money," he once said, with winning simplicity. The money brushed off like pollen; at one time or another, Sonnenberg handled the p.r. needs of CBS, Philip Morris, David Sarnoff, Lever Brothers, Samuel Goldwyn, Pan Am, Squibb, Pepperidge Farm and others too numerous to count. A...
The result was a collection that was a pure demonstration of its owner's fantasies. The clothes peddler's son from Grand Street was, at heart, a displaced Edwardian grandee, longing for the class (high, slightly raffish, demanding and Anglophile) into which he had not been born. His...