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...Massachusetts statute, the capitalization requirement is determined by the population of the area where the bank is located. On that basis, Unity should have been able to capitalize at $450,000, not $1 million. "They figured we wouldn't be able to meet that and eventually fade into the woodwork," Sneed said of the board's action. "But we wouldn't be stopped by the restrictions they put on us." Demand for Unity stock was so great that eventually its board of directors requested an increase in capitalization to $1.2 million...
...Into the Woodwork. The most dramatic indicator was an intelligence report that between 40,000 and 60,000 North Vietnamese troops have withdrawn from South Viet Nam, many of them slipping into Cambodia and Laos from the northern provinces and from such metropolitan areas as Saigon. "They just seem to have disappeared into the woodwork," said a U.S. officer...
...head and drove onward in a persistent fugue, calling to mind so many teach-ins, marches, gestures. "I ain't a marchin anymore"--"One more parade"--and you entered the Brattle; it was crowded, pulsing to some mystical rhythm, and the beautiful people were there, out of winter's woodwork for the afternoon's happening...
Donald Soule's set, but for brown woodwork a shade too shiny, is an eminently presentable post-Victorian product, markedly more solid than the usual Loeb interior. Alan P. Symond's lighting still casts a few unintended shadows, but should be rebalanced by tonight, at which time also the all-important gaslight might be better coordinated with Mrs. Manningham's references to it. Among the citations in the program is one to an outfit named "Bwana Bus and Lighting" whom we are presumably to thank for some incidental virtue of this pleasant, unmemorable show...
...last week in Washington. "But that doesn't mean I'm necessarily going to run." At least 18 other Texans are also being discussed as candidates, although only Lieutenant Governor Preston Smith, a colorless, ultra-conservative Democrat, has yet announced. "Everyone's coming out of the woodwork for this one," said a Republican leader...