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...Stanford University track squad (class of '50) and the crown prince of one of California's reigning families, had a good deal to do with his highflying fortunes in the oil business. Burke not only got Chandler, now the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, to sink $250,000 of his own money into various drilling funds; Chandler also, in his own words, became the "door opener" for Burke to dozens of other rich West Coast investors, including Times executives, movie stars and California politicians. The Journal revealed that they and everyone else who invested in Burke...
...Well, I'm goin' to a hoe-down--And kick up my heels--Go all night and never slow down--Yes, I love how it feels." Three more songs were played in rapid succession: "It's a Good Mornin'," "Railroad Days," and "Old Forgiver," gone almost before they could sink in. "It's a Good Mornin" is country funk, the hard core of the Poco music, "Railroad Days" and "Old Forgiver" belong to new guitarist Paul Cotton, who replaced tour-weary Jim Messina about a year ago. Cotton's work is more rock 'n' roll musically than Furay...
...they have in the uncivilized wilds of the colonial empire. Coming perhaps closest to the truth, Shotover says that England is like a ship without moral navigation: "The captain is in his bunk, drinking bottled ditch-water; and the crew is gambling in the forecastle. She will strike and sink and split. Do you think the laws of God will be suspended in favor of England because you were born...
...young wife: Sonya, his fresh, intelligent young daughter, stuck in the country for the rest of her days; Vanya himself, who could have been "a Dostoevsky or a Schopenhauer" if not for 25 years of "stupid, dirty provincial life;" and Dr. Astrov, who despite his intelligence and energy will sink--with the help of the vodka bottle--into Vanya's vulgarity and hopelessness after another 10 years...
...Democrats' retort to Shultz is likely to be that a vote against extra spending is a vote for continued unemployment, which is now running at a 5.5% rate and is not expected to sink below 5% until at least next year. With the economy still far from being fully employed, many Democrats argue, there is little inflationary risk in chalking up higher deficit spending-but a good deal of job-creating gain...