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...staff. Carter often summoned him, and the two held long talks alone on the back veranda of the mansion. The Governor ran all his top appointments through his confidant. Carter made a nearby Capitol office available to him, and several times each week Kirbo would pull up in his pickup truck, much to the annoyance of Capitol guards, and park in a VIP space...
Reckless Waltzes. The evening does have some amusing nonsense and high spirits. The sets and costumes by Desmond Heeley are not only clever but look notably fresh. The music, ar ranged and conducted by John Lanch-berry, sounds like a serious ensemble rather than the pickup assortment that often accompanies dance. The Australians are a very handsome company. The girls are among the prettiest dancers around; the men are tall and athletic. John Meehan, who plays Count Danilo, the rich widow's reluctant lover, is positively coltish. He carries off the evening with blithe bravado, swinging Dame Margot around...
...Chrysler, which has rebounded smartly into the black this year after losing $260 million in 1975, the sales stars are the mid-sized Cordoba and the popular new Aspen and Volare compacts. All of the Big Three are also getting a substantial lift from surging sales of vans and pickup trucks, which are up 40% this year, mostly because of their popularity in what some auto executives describe as the "blue denim" market. Says Chrysler Executive Vice President Richard K. Brown: "They used to be just work vehicles. Now they are among the most popular forms of modified, personalized transportation...
Auto Sales. The sweetest figures so far this year have been in retail sales. In April they climbed 14% above a year earlier, and now they are about 10% ahead of 1975. Pacing the boom is the dramatic pickup in auto sales, which are now racing at an annual rate of 9.2 million and show every sign of outdistancing even the most optimistic projections, to hit 10.6 million for the year, v. 8.2 million in 1975. Last week Detroit reported that auto sales for the ten days ending May 20 were up an impressive 53% over last year...
...intriguing aspect of the pickup in mergers and acquisitions is that black businessmen for the first time are playing a role. Until recently, many black entrepreneurs who could raise money had little experience and were forced to start their businesses from scratch in ghetto areas. As a result, the mortality rate of black-owned businesses has been high. Now, led by Manhattan's Citibank, moneymen are seeking out black entrepreneurs who have good management records and offering to finance their acquisition of successful, largely white-owned enterprises. Citibank recently helped blacks to take over a profitable Chicago margarine company...