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...lace. To hot young engineers in Detroit-where the action nowadays is in computerized fuel injection, stratified charge engines and other technologies for saving gasoline-electrics are a scientific diversion. Wall Street's auto-industry analysts reflect that mood. Says Maryann Keller, a vice president of Paine Webber: "We think of them as these wonderful little things...
...long last Talese has got his story into print, and it certainly answers thousands of questions. How, for instance, did Nude Model Diane Webber's great-great-grandmother die? (An Indian shot her in the back.) Did General Custer carry life insurance into the battle of Little Big Horn? (Yes, a $5,000 policy with New York Life.) What covered the circular bed in Hugh Hefner's private DC-9? (A coverlet made of Tasmanian opossum...
...reported to have dropped in on a weekend bankers' convention, Hunt was busy tidying up business deals. The silver baron woke up last Monday morning with IOUs scattered all over Wall Street. Chief among them: $33 million to Bache Halsey Stuart Shields; $10 million to Paine Webber and $4 million to St. Louis Broker A.G. Edwards. The biggest debt was owed to Engelhard Minerals and Chemical Co. Hunt had contracts to buy 19 million oz. of silver from the firm at $35 per oz. Fulfilling that agreement would have meant paying $665 million for silver worth only $270 million...
Sexual Perversity is a string of these revelations, a blinking sequence of comic vignettes. The tiny lives of Danny Shapiro, Bernie Litko, Deborah Solomon and Joan Webber unfold like used cocktail napkins seeped in ritualized sexual juices at the bottom of a human sink. They go to single bars, they talk about sex as if it were running for president, they talk dirty in bed ("cum tastes like the junior prom...it smells like clorox but it tastes like the junior prom,") and they comment on the sexual revolution ("what do you think this is, the past...
...concerned that offshore drilling, without the necessary safety precautions, will endanger the marine environment and destroy one of the world's richest fishing areas. George's Bank supplies 17 per cent of the United State's fish catch and 14 per cent of the world's seafood, Mark Webber, a spokesman for Friends of the Earth, said yesterday...