Word: slims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bluesman Memphis Slim decided to go to New York...
Neither he nor Memphis Slim had any money; their suitcases were just fronts so that the hotel manager would let them stay, Dixon points out. They called a number of record companies and charged the calls to the hotel. Dixon recalls that the man from Prestige said, "Come on over. Let me see what...
...didn't have any songs when we called," Dixon says, "but by the time we walked over to the studio, we had plenty." Dixon and Memphis Slim made their first money in New York at that recording session...
WHILE THE first four chapters of this slim book are autobiographical, always, however, with an eye on the wider political scene, the last chapter looks forward to what solution would bring a lasting peace to the Middle East, one that takes into account the national rights of the disinherited, dispossessed Palestinians. Turki sketches a tentative plan of a separate Palestinian state alongside Israel which would give Palestinians at least the right to national self-determination in part of their homeland. However, in coversation, the author has moved away from that position because he fears a separate state would just become...
...both crude oil and refined products to assure the survival of independent refiners and almost all of the independent gas stations. There is also the possibility that Congress will enact a law that would break up the big oil companies along functional lines. Currently, such legislation stands only a slim chance of passing. But if this winter brings fuel oil shortages or next summer brings a repetition of the gasoline scare, sentiment could swing in favor of such...