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ROGER LIVES IN Boston Common, and, as he will tell you, it's not everyone who has musicians and roller skaters and pigeons and sunbathers in his house. And, as he will tell you, but only if you ask, it's not everyone who gets to spend their nights on a park bench, awakened three or four times each night by the Boston Police, bothered by kids who won't let him enjoy his high in peace, who want to steal his dope or just jabber with him because they're still soaring...
Planning a business trip to England? Better pack a suitcase full of traveler's checks. This year London has become the world's most expensive city for an executive to visit, nosing out such traditional high-roller havens as Paris and Tokyo. Two days in the shadow of Big Ben-with first-class wining and dining all the way-now cost a princely $1,093, excluding airfare, according to a new survey of 30 cities by Business International, a New York consulting firm...
...separation. While he still has some connections with the Hanafi Muslims in Washington, D.C., he has rid himself of the house where seven of them were murdered in 1973. Once among the most reclusive of superstars, Abdul-Jabbar is now seen about the town more often, skating at a roller disco or dining with friends...
First Perm's highflyer had been Bunting, its handsome and articulate chairman. In a wild roller-coaster ride starting in 1968, he tried to move the conservative regional bank into the same class as the major New York institutions with a go-go policy of risky venture-capital loans and high-yielding real estate deals. For a while the strategy worked. In five years First Penn led all banks with a healthy 16.4% return on equity. But the 1974-75 recession caught the bank overextended. Then, between 1976 and 1979, Bunting sank about 20% of the bank...
LAST WEEK Alfred Hitchcock ascended his last staircase at age 80. He defined suspense in the cinema, playing with his audience's expectations, sustaining nearly unbearable levels of tension for reel after reel until everything exploded in one of his legendary roller-coaster "sequences"--the crop-dusting scene in North by Northwest, the shower scene in Psycho, the amusement park in Strangers on a Train, the back of the potato truck in Frenzy--you could go on and on. His films were really comedies, from the sick joke of Psycho to Cary Grant's "Wait a minute, fellas...