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BOWDITCH: Well, I think I can answer at least part of that. We have sion control in California as well as nationwide...
Wagner's latter years in office were dreary and ineffectual, and he invited -by continued public borrowing and eva sion of problems - many of the troubles that beset Lindsay. But Lindsay's own record is now tarnished, and at the press conference announcing his candidacy, Wagner was in confident good humor. He proclaimed no bold new programs-of course. Instead, the soothing voice intoned: "I do not pretend or believe that I can solve all the problems of New York City." But he made it clear that he thought he could do a better job than Lindsay, whom...
...Viennese landscape artist named Carl Moll, was more perceptive. He brought Kokoschka home to paint - and cheer up -his beautiful stepdaughter, recently be reaved of her first husband, the Com poser Gustav Mahler. Alma's verdict: "A handsome figure, but disturbingly coarse." After the first sketching ses sion, Kokoschka stood up, embraced her and then dashed out of the room. A few hours later, she received the first of many proposals from...
...book, How Communists Negotiate, "thereby perhaps averting construction of the two tallest flagpoles on earth." The meetings have now turned into what one participant calls "the battle of the bladder." They often run for eight hours, and if any of the senior members leaves the table before the ses sion is formally closed, the other side interprets it as a deliberate walkout. The talks are also spiced with undiplomatic language. When U.S. Army Major General Richard Ciccolella was the senior United Nations member last year, he regularly prefaced his remarks to North Korean Major General Pak Chun Kuk with...
Touch of the Romans. I-I is edited for performance-minded money man agers like Scarsdale, but it is also finding an increasing audience among men who decide what stocks will be bought and sold by mutual funds, banks, universities, insurance companies and pen sion systems. I-I figures that its readers could easily muster assets of well over $400 billions - more than enough to pay off the national debt...