Word: trusts
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Nevertheless, Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts is an impressive collection by one of the U.S.'s most stylish and original satirists. Indeed, Barthelme tucks into these stories his own credo and best definition. "Fragments are the only forms I trust," says one fractured soul. And elsewhere: "Strings of language extend in every direction to bind the world into a rushing, ribald whole...
...John F. Kennedy in the late 1930s, when Father Joe was U.S. Ambassador to London. While Harlech, then William David Ormsby Gore, was slogging through a series of unglamorous diplomatic jobs, his friend got elected President and specifically requested Ormsby Gore as Britain's Ambassador to Washington. "I trust David as I would my own Cabinet," said Kennedy-and he saw more of David than he did of most of his Cabinet...
Insurance and American Amicable, and the First Western Bank & Trust Co. of Los Angeles...
...steel industry-where other conglomerate kings like Norton Simon have failed-remains to be seen. LTV plans to stick to a well-tried tactic: as in earlier acquisitions, it will go along with the old management. The stock that LTV acquires will be put into a five-man voting trust until 1971, with present J. & L. officers having a controlling three-man vote among the trustees. But there will be plenty of dividends for LTV. Jones & Laughlin recently reported first-quarter earnings of $11,706,000 on sales of $277 million. In his tender announcement last week, Ling also noted...
...trust that what I have said thus far illuminates some aspects of the intellectual validity of the Black Experience. I have purposely refrained from defining specifically what I mean by intellectual validity of the Black Experience: It happens that I hate definitions! I have also consciously refrained from attempting to deduce a conception of the intellectual validity of the Black Experience by emphasizing the oppressive aspects of this Experience as exemplified preeminently in the past three centuries of black-white relationships. I am, I think, reasonably knowledgeable about the bloody and dehumanizing record of this oppressive relationship. But I consider...