Word: townes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Businessmen are always grumbling about rising taxes, but they rarely make good on threats to take their firms out of town to avoid the bite. Last week, to escape a new 50-per-share city tax on stock transactions, the Philadelphia-Baltimore-Washington Stock Exchange abruptly began moving to the suburbs from its imposing quarters in downtown Philadelphia...
Even though a court order temporarily restrained the city from collecting the levy, the nation's oldest exchange (founded in 1790) started trading in makeshift leased quarters in the affluent Main Line town of Bala-Cynwyd, a 25-minute auto ride from the city center. Lacking the traditional opening bell, George Snyder, an exchange governor, intoned a resounding "bong." Then 25 trading specialists sat around a composition-board table laid over trestles to buy and sell shares. Despite a shortage of telephones and stock tickers, which forced them to run the tapes down the length of the table...
...Callan's shoulders threaten the seams of his Ike jacket. When he bellows an order, even officers jump. No one would dare to cast doubt upon his masculinity-no one but Callan himself. Irresistibly attracted to a young private named Swanson (John Phillip Law), Callan follows him around town, grows jealous of Swanson's girl friend (Ludmila Mikael), and eventually reveals himself with what may become the screen's new cliche: a mouth-to-mouth, homosexual kiss. The breakdown follows as inevitably as taps follows lights...
...gave out the news that they enjoyed an "extraordinarily fine relationship." Late this year, the Stangs divorced, and Ullman-and her daughter Linn-moved into the $100,000 house Bergman recently built on Sheep Island, scene of The Shame. On occasion, they can also be spied upon in their town house in Stockholm's expensive residential suburb, Deer Garden. Guarding his privacy with zeal, Bergman has only once publicly ventured an opinion about the woman who has played a major role in his last three films-and in his life. "As in photography, Liv is a complete commentary unto...
...BRITISH came to town this week and won my heart. If they didn't win your heart, then you probably missed the Oxford-Cambridge Players' late-night revue, Strictly for Kicks, which stopped briefly at the Loeb...