Word: philadelphia
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...morning stumping in New Jersey, where his weariness had earlier caused him to praise a supporter for coming "here for the New Hampshire primary," Hart's aides found that early exit polls indicated he was going to lose the state. Shortly after his chartered Boeing 720 took off from Philadelphia, an engine caught fire and the cabin filled with smoke. Hart's wife Lee ran from a rear seat through the plane because "I thought we were going down and I wanted to be with my family." The aircraft landed safely, and Hart's shaken entourage took Ozark Air Lines...
...three-day International Monetary Conference held last week in Philadelphia had all the trappings of a gala affair. In the evenings, private bankers and government finance officials from 22 countries sipped champagne at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and sampled Viennese pastries in the gorgeous Longwood Gardens of the Pierre S. du Pont estate. But during the daytime closed-door meetings at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel, the business was serious and the mood sober. Bankers were groping once again for solutions to the Latin American debt dilemma, which was threatening to take another turn for the worse...
...Philadelphia conference, Jacques de Larosière, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, and Paul Volcker, Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, urged bankers to stretch out repayment schedules for Mexican loans and reduce that country's interest rates, which now run as high as 13.5%. Mexico deserves such a break, said De Larosière, because it has made substantial progress toward solving its economic problems. Since 1982 the country has cut a 100% inflation rate almost in half and doubled its annual trade surplus to $13.6 billion...
...money and heat generated on the heroin bill were spent on developing new drugs and educating doctors on how to use the drugs we al ready have, patients would be a lot better off," insists Dr. Michael Levy, director of palliative care at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. This view is shared by Dame Cicely Saunders, the English founder of the hospice movement, which popularized the use of heroin in Britain to relieve dying patients. The controversy over heroin, she says, is focusing attention away from the main issue, which is "the need to improve the general standard...
Most administrators agree that the current crop of leading conductors is too small and the temptations of jet travel too great for the widespread return of the old-fashioned music director like George Szell in Cleveland or Eugene Ormandy in Philadelphia. Says Gideon Toeplitz, executive director of the Houston Symphony: "If Ormandy were young today, nobody would expect him to stay 40 years with his orchestra." The globetrotting, if-this-is-Tuesday types are not about to be tied down. "It's easy to stand up and beat time and have fancy choreography and a good tailor, but that...