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...talk about their differences on the platform. Jordan had a similar story to report. His counterpart on the Kennedy side, Paul Kirk, had not returned his calls either. "They're not going to play ball," said Strauss. The group spent the next 30 minutes deciding what to recommend to the President...
...weak mayor system of government leaves a vacuum--someone has to run the city day to day. For the last 40 years, that person has been the city manager. Under Cambridge's "Plan E" charter, the manager hires and fires--the city council can only appropriate and recommend. But the councilors can fire one person--the city manager. If you understand what that authority means, you can recognize a balance of power when...
...Civil War covered exclusively by Peter Sellers," but in adolescence he was claimed by comedy. In the R.A.F. he amused airmen by imitating a series of officers and enlisted men. When he applied for a job at the BBC, he took the precaution of getting two radio stars to recommend him by phone. The voices of both actors were played by Peter Sellers. At the BBC he found colleagues who gave lunacy a good name. On radio and film, the members of the Goon Show climbed Mount Everest from the inside, scrubbed a field with soap and took a phonograph...
...foreign acquisitions of U.S. banks, such as the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp.'s purchase of 41% of New York's Marine Midland. Financiers now are worried that the Crocker deal might push Congress to erect new barriers. Indeed, the General Accounting Office is expected to recommend next month that Congress reinstate the moratorium. That would limit the activities of British banks in the U.S. at a time when the international branches of major American banks are aggressively attacking the United Kingdom market. The British will doubtless argue that any moves to block their development...
...aging board of directors that has no compulsory retirement policy, no adequate pension plan and no tradition of honoring emeritus directors. So each board member hangs on and on, becoming increasingly shortsighted as he becomes increasingly sclerotic. Such a corporation, no matter how large and powerful, would not recommend itself...