Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Music knows neither frontiers nor race nor nationalism," the promoter told the crowd of 2,000 Italian and French jazz lovers. With that, Count Basie, 73, the grand old master of keyboard swing, stepped up to a piano placed smack on the Franco-Italian borderline on the Pont St. Ludovic, and with his band launched a medley of such crowd pleasers as Sweet Georgia Brown and Freckle Face. Meanwhile traffic was blocked on both the Italian and French sides of the bridge, and a cacophony of auto horns accompanied the Count. "I've played outdoors before but never like...
...President holds many unpublicized conversations with such fellows as Du Pont's Irving Shapiro, General Motors' Thomas Murphy and A T &T's John deButts. Very often, he seeks the advice of a tall, spare British immigrant who is emerging as one of the three or four most influential spokesmen of American business, General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones...
...G.O.P. blood is rising. There are now four clearly defined categories of candidates or potentials. Oldies-Reagan, Ford. Old newies-Connally. New oldies-Richardson, Bush, Baker, Brock, Percy, Dole, Ray, Mathias, Ruckelshaus. Newies-Borman, Kemp, Heinz, Du Pont, Thompson...
...initial reaction from many business leaders was that the economic stimulus to be expected from the proposed cut was not worth the extra deficit that it would add to the budget. Asked Irving Shapiro, chairman of Du Pont de Nemours & Co.: "Why have it at all if the reductions are going to be too small to do any good?" Oregon Democrat Al Ullman, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which is handling the tax legislation, welcomed Carter's decision, but said that the cut should be reduced to about $15 billion. In any event, Carter may back...
...each earning $700 to $800 a week, and their spending power will create new jobs in hotels, restaurants and stores. "It will be a tremendous advantage for the Atlantic City area," says Louis Dalberth, head of the Southern New Jersey Development Council. "Super," echoes Delaware Governor Pierre du Pont IV, who hopes to get support facilities set up in his state...