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...moves were intended to help thrift institutions snare some of the funds that have been going into such enticing outlets as commercial paper (8½%), Government bonds (8%) or Eurodollars (9¾%). The chief effect is likely to be a small rise in passbook savings, though such accounts still do not pay enough to make up for the erosion of inflation...
...Michael Kidd. Ernest Lehman's script is based on the Broadway musical (which was based on Thornton Wilder's farce The Matchmaker). It is woven from a solitary yarn. Matchmaker Dolly Levi sets great store by Horace Vandergelder's feed and grain store and decides to snare him for her own. She does. Curtain. In between their coy runaround, tiny complications arise. None of them matter, but several are the premises for blithe and sumptuous dance numbers. The most kinetic, Dancing, is happily reminiscent of the old MGM musical It's Always Fair Weather, starring...
...different band than when I last saw them over three years ago. The Stones, never much on melody, have always relied upon tension and frenzy in their sound. The frenzy comes from the strong assertion of the quintessential rock and roll instruments-drums and bass guitar. Watts hits the snare drum obsessively with a force whose pure violence is unequalled by any other drummer. His elementary patterns are cretinous because the Stones like it that way, not, as detractors would have it, because he can't play any other way, (A high-point of the New York concert...
...snare more passengers, Pan Am will concentrate on service. "The hostess should think she is giving a party," says Halaby. Pan Am is also trying to acquire a domestic carrier to compete against TWA, which has both U.S. and international routes. Next year, Pan Am will become the first airline to put Boeing 747 jets into service, and the company counts on the 362-passenger jumbos to regain its financial health. To help fill all those seats, Pan Am can obviously use some of Halaby's zeal...
That might have been all that Dartmouth would have scored had it not been for two interceptions early in the second quarter. Safety Willie Bogen moved in front of Harvard's Steve Harrison at the Crimson 30 to snare a pass from halfback Ray Hornblower and run it back 19 yards. Three plays later, Jim Chasey scored what proved to be the winning points on a one yard buck...