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...MARCOS DYNASTY by Sterling Seagrave (Harper & Row; $22.50). This merciless account of the Filipino dictator's rise and fall poses many intriguing questions, answering some. Why did Ferdinand purloin billions of dollars? What did Imelda want with all those shoes...
...MARCOS DYNASTY by Sterling Seagrave (Harper & Row; $22.50). This merciless account of the Filipino dictator's rise and fall poses many intriguing questions and answers some of them. Why did Ferdinand purloin billions of dollars? What did Imelda want with all those shoes...
...being announced, Manhattan-based Bache Halsey Stuart Inc. sued Loeb Rhoades & Co. Inc. for $5 million damages, charging that Loeb Rhoades had pirated 17 salespeople out of its New Orleans and Orlando, Fla., offices. Bache also sued its former managers of those offices for conspiring with Loeb Rhoades to purloin trade secrets, and asked the New York courts to stop the firm from using any customer information that the Bache employees might have taken along with them. Loeb Rhoades strongly denies doing anything wrong...
...evoking it. Indeed, 22 top congressional Republicans gave Nixon an ovation when they met in his office and he vowed "to continue measures to ensure secrecy." Said Senate G.O.P. Leader Hugh Scott: "I hope that the President will receive the same credence that is sometimes given to thieves who purloin documents...
...Lola Pratt, the Baby Talk Lady, who is "almost a divorced woman," and his adolescent antics are as funny today as when they were written. High spots are still Willie's drastic expedients to get pocket money to woo heartless, flirtatious Lola in style, his stratagems to purloin his father's dress suit, his difficulties with a used-car shark, his running feud with his snoopy, roller-skating little sister (Norma Nelson), his desperate moon-calfing and the beginnings of wisdom. Just as important to the meaning of Seventeen are the watchful restraint and troubled tact with which...