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...must have seemed to Elton and Bernie. Their system just was not working. Recalls DJM Record Executive Dick James, who became their patron: "They had no sense of what was commercial and were terrible at writing for other people." It was James who made the key observation in their young lives, namely that "no one could sing Elton's songs like he could." So he gave them ?20 a week, plus a little more to replace his presumptive star's ripped jeans, and sent him forth to conquer first Scotland, then the world...
Ever eager to attract new depositors and enlarge their assets, American banks have instituted such patron-pleasing competitive innovations as longer hours, credit cards and robot tellers that will take deposits and, in some instances, disburse money 24 hours a day. Soon customers across the country may also be able to make savings and loan or bank deposits and withdrawals in supermarkets and other stores as a result of a court ruling that removed legal obstacles to a pioneering experiment in Nebraska...
...attempts to reassemble his life, he has at least found comforting surrogate parents in the U.S. They are Mrs. Saunder and Howard Oilman, board chairman of the Oilman Paper Co. A major patron of music and dance, Oilman has lent Baryshnikov a New York penthouse rent-free. Saunder and Oilman have introduced him to musicians like Cellist Mstislav Rostropovitch and Conductor Leonard Bernstein. Baryshnikov has plunged eagerly into an investigation of American culture. He spends his spare time at plays, operas and especially movies. He is a considerable student of television, whether afternoon cartoons or old movies on the late...
...More rarely, NLF forces have resorted to more indiscriminate terror--as in the nearly legendary and possibly mythical Hue massacre of 1968, or PRG forces' unconscionable shelling of Saigon slums last week. But lacking the unlimited support, up-to-date military equipment, and direct military intervention of a wealthy patron superpower, the PRG--unlike the Saigon government--was never able to make terror its principal strength, even if it had wanted to. The NLF was forced to rely on the support of ordinary villagers, the men and women who brought it so close to victory in the early 1960s that...
...reaching toward others. The growing adult is expansive, devoted to mastering the world; he avoids emotional extremes, rarely bothers to analyze commitments. To Levinson, this is a time for "togetherness" in marriage. It is also a time when a man is likely to acquire a mentor-a patron and supporter some eight to 15 years older...