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...became Freeman's vice chairman and heir apparent about two years ago. A major force behind First Chicago's expansion in recent years, Abboud foresees the company's total assets growing to $25 billion in the next five years. One plan: rapid establishment of low-overhead, tellerless "branches" that will use computerized electronic machines for withdrawals and deposits. The bank has announced plans to open its first twelve such installations in Jewel food stores next month...
...NEED NOT turn beyond the first photograph in this book to understand that cameraman James Klosty could not possibly express more about choreographer Merce Cunningham than that he's an enigma. That first photograph silhouettes Cunningham--turned from the waist, arms stretched overhead, legs rooted apart--like a Klee stick figure, or a Giacometti spider-thin nude, or maybe a twentieth-century version of the Renaissance icon: man as the measure of all things...
...that Greene's two-year-old daughter had fallen into the swimming pool. Rosenstein, who played club football at the University of Pittsburgh and considers himself reasonably agile, threw his notes aside and dived into the pool. But as he thrashed furiously, he saw a "large shape" pass overhead and plunge into the water several feet ahead of him. Greene stood up and, says Rosenstein, "lifted the girl out of the water with a powerful swoop. It was the quickest that I've ever seen anyone react...
Distant Thunder has the deliberate, unadorned reality of a folk tale, a fable of encroaching, enlarging catastrophe. The thunder of the title refers directly to the war planes that Bengali villagers see flying overhead. More important, the thunder is the sound of the second World War. To the villagers it seems, at first, remote. They speak wonderingly of "the flying ships," trade rumors of Japanese advances on Singapore and Burma, and live very much as they always have, just skirting absolute deprivation. The war seems mysterious and alien. Then the rice starts running...
Less than a minute into the game, though, the outlook was as bleak as the grey skies overhead. Tiger forward Jim Hansen beat Crimson fullback Geoff Hargadon on a pass from Allan Marshall, leaving goalie Fred Herold virtually no chance of stopping the score...