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...trading agency. But Toure's recent concession that Guinea's economy has room for private companies, too, has sparked the company's hopes of resuming operations. "Size is not a bad thing in Africa," muses a company executive. "Without it, we could not have held a toe hold in Guinea...
Tough Tenors: The Johnny Griffin and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Quintet (Jazz-land). Two saxmen of the hard-bop persuasion trade heated solos like a couple of alternately firing spark plugs. Most successful combustions: Funky Fluke, a scrambling exercise in sheer speed, and the old favorite, Tickle Toe...
...Washington Conversation, Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater last week all but dismissed Re publican chances for retaking the presidency in 1964. Said he: "The history of this century shows that Presidents are re-elected for a second term - unless some thing very bad happens. Unless Kennedy stubs his toe, I would say that history would be against us." No such thing, said California's Richard Nixon, emerging from meetings with lo cal Republicans to announce that he will start a national politicking swing about May I to discuss the errors of the "first 100 days of the Kennedy...
...shares, amounting to a 59% controlling interest in Newsweek, passed to the trust. Eager to sell Newsweek, the foundation promptly, though privately, began hunting a buyer. Among the handful of serious bidders was Newsweek Board Chairman Malcolm Muir, 75, who hoped to enlarge his family's 13% toe hold on the magazine with the Astor shares. But Graham's offer of $50 a share (which was about 24 times the magazine's earnings per share) was $5 better than Muir's best, and Muir lost...
...England the winkle picker is an extremely pointed-toe shoe. The term is derived from the sharp pin used in eating periwinkles...