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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...south of the 49th parallel, where his songs are performed by such singers as Harry Belafonte and Peter, Paul and Mary, he has remained chiefly a popular figure in the folk underground. Until recently, at least. Now he is getting numerous engagements in the club circuit; during the past few months he has performed at Manhattan's Bitter End, Los Angeles' Troubadour, and San Francisco's Fillmore auditorium. Is he about to wander into popular success in the U.S. too? Lightfoot shrugs. "The public gets around to you," he says. "You don't get around...
Much of Lightfoot's wandering, musically speaking, is done amid the vast geography and pioneer history of his native country. "I believe there are times when you should return to the soil, at least in your own mind, and when you should live in the past," he says. Canadian Railroad Trilogy evokes a time
Within the past year and a half, 48 banks with a combined $69.6 billion in deposits have proposed or actually formed one-bank holding companies in 21 states. Among the 48 are many of the nation's largest banks: San Fran cisco's Bank of America, Crocker-Citizens and Wells Fargo, Pittsburgh's National Bank, Philadelphia's First Penn sylvania Banking and Trust Co. and Winston-Salem's Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. A few days ago, Manhattan's Chemical Bank New York Trust Co. joined the group...
Neat Bundle. Hurwich remains more than willing to look at new inventions, which have paid off so handsomely for him in the past. He recently gave financial backing to Product Specialists of Santa Monica, Calif., the developers of a 35-to 55-lb. boat made of polypropylene. For easy transportation and storage, the Stowboat, as it is called, can be folded up into a 4-in.-thick, 10-ft.-long bundle. Priced at from $200 to $450 each, the boats have already attracted 1,500 buyers...
...kind of literary import, it stands partially obscured by the excess political baggage that has accompanied it. The kinds of labels inevitably suggested by the advance publicity are gross and distracting: savage expose of Stalinism; revealing political microcosm; old cold-war propaganda. The reader is thus challenged to slip past the luggage and the labels into the heart of the book...