Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bonds between the two opposites. At 46, Lance was closer in age to the President, who is 52, than most of the young Georgians who made up the White House's inner circle. Like the Baptist President, Lance-a Methodist-took his religion seriously. Both were workaholics who thought nothing of being at their desks at 6:30 a.m.-and at 6:30 p.m. as well. And both knew what it was like to fight their way from small-town Georgia to fame and power...
Loans Few bankers thought Lance was wrong to seek personal loans from correspondent banks, which provided services for the banks he ran in exchange for interest-free accounts. Said one Florida banker: "He's going to go to a bank where he does business. It's as simple as that." In fact, an ABA 1976 survey found that about 93% of the bankers replying routinely offered personal loans to corresponding banking partners like Lance...
...Army Corps of Engineers thought that was enough of a possibility to invest $17,000 and two summers scouting a 300-mile stretch of the St. John River to see if the fearsome Furbish could be found elsewhere. Now the engineers have proudly announced the discovery of no fewer than five clumps of louseworts safely beyond the proposed dam site. What is more, they claim, the exotic flower can be cultivated elsewhere. Although the Dickey-Lincoln project, first authorized by Congress in 1965, still has other hurdles to clear before construction begins, the lousewort no longer appears...
Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel; Three Intermezzi, Op. 117; Three Intermezzi, Op. 119; Rhapsody, Op. 119 No. 4 (Pianist Van Cliburn, RCA). The Handel Variations are often thought of as a piece that only a pianist, or piano buff, could love. In one of his most appealing albums in years, Van Cliburn puts the lie to that. Leaping from one craggy Brahmsian peak to another as effortlessly as though playing Debussy's Clair de lune, Cliburn gives the work a warm romantic allure yet never loses hold of its classic-baroque underpinnings. What ingenuity...
...wonder Powell is unhappy. The nation's press has delivered almost daily truckloads of damning evidence about Bert Lance's banking habits and kept the story alive long after Powell and his boss thought they had squelched it. In the press secretary's view, some of the reportorial digging around Lance has been gratuitous, overplayed and underresearched...