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Comptroller of the Currency and a top federal bank regulator, tried to squash the stories by declaring that the investment positions of Continental's balance sheet "compare favorably to those of other major multinational banks." He also denied a Japanese wire-service story that he was trying to find buyers for Continental in Japan and elsewhere...
...very few architects who can still squeeze some poetic drops from the overworked convention of the curtain wall. Basically, he does this by playing down the frame of mullions and spandrels and emphasizing the wall's nature as a pictorial surface, a sheet rilled with color patches and reflections. MOMA'S street façades, sheathed in blue-gray and white glass, extend and echo the window bands of the 1939 facade on the lower floors; and when the tower takes off into the sky, it does so with a degree of sober deliberation-story by story...
...decor was brightened with pink gladiolas from Guangdong province, some 1,100 miles south of Peking, and arranged on 60 tables for ten The multinational place settings included German chinaware Irish linen and French crystal, candelabras and silverware. A twelve-piece Chinese orchestra trained feverishly for two weeks with sheet music sent over by the White House: works by George Gershwin and Irving Berlin, along with Reagan's favorite diplomatic overture, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Getting to Know...
Benyukh, pleased, said it would be only right if the band followed up with The Star-Spangled Banner. Without sheet music, with a gulp or two, and with a roll of the timpani, the young scholars commenced, the cheeks on the horn players collapsing and filling like hearts. With the exception of two trumpets that fell shy of the highest notes, they acquitted themselves all right...
Some club members said they devote much of their time to medieval activities. One Tufts student, who uses the name Dimitri Mikhiliovtich in his medieval activities, spent 60 hours making a small sheet of chain mail, a kind of armor protection...