Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Divorced. Glenda Jackson, 39, Academy Award-winning actress (Women in Love, A Touch of Class); and Stage Director Roy Hodges, 48; after 18 years of marriage, one child; in London...
...warming blood to the extremities. Eventually, if the temperature in the tissue drops low enough, tiny ice crystals begin to form in the watery spaces between the cells. Expanding outward in all directions, the ice ruptures cell membranes and kills the tissue, which turns white, stiff and insensitive to touch...
...circuitry, the black plastic Pronto will list for $66 but probably will be reduced by discounters to about $50-a third of the $150 that the highest priced SX-70 sells for at discount. Yet it does the same thing that the more expensive SX-70s do: at a touch of the shutter button, a white card is released that develops into a color picture before the viewer's eyes...
...though the Post story was vastly overplayed and gave little perspective, it did touch on real concerns with in the banking community. The comptroller's office no longer keeps the list that the newspaper described, but it did until sometime last year. Citi bank, the second largest U.S. bank, and Chase, the third largest, really had been on the list. And the fact that two such giants could have been deemed in need of extra regulatory attention illustrates the pervasive na ture of some genuine troubles in the nation's banking system. Collectively, the 14,600 U.S. commercial...
...wondering why you've never heard of the above Amoskeag Press, it's because there is no such outfit to speak of. It was created by Kevin Cash because no publishing company, in New Hampshire or elsewhere, would touch a biography of William Loeb, and most rejected Cash's book sight unseen. Since critical studies of almost everybody imaginable from government officials to religious leaders, are published all the time in this country, the refusal to handle this particular biography is in itself remarkable, something of an indication of what makes William Loeb worthy of serious attention...