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...grimace, and with the help of his blessed stunt team, Bond would doubtless eel his way through tight spots until he was older than yesterday. By then he would be played by Anthony Andrews or Michael Jackson, and his adversary would be an octogenarian Norman Bates or Rocky Balboa. And the women would still be young and beautiful...
...financial supermarkets, meanwhile, have been eyeing thrifts as possible additions to their growing line of services. Merrill Lynch and Shearson/ American Express are each in the process of buying a thrift. Stockholders of Newport Balboa Savings Association (assets: $65.2 million) in Southern California are selling the S and L to ITT Financial Corp. for $13.5 million, or $65 a share. The deal, which is subject to regulatory approval, would be a bonanza for Newport Balboa owners, who paid $12.50 a share when the stock was first issued...
...Canal was especially meaningful for one Newstour participant, Veteran Negotiator Sol Linowitz, who helped accomplish the return of that waterway to Panama. Later, at lunch, President Ricardo de la Espriella and Foreign Minister José Amado III presented Linowitz with the Order of Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, Panama's highest honor, for his efforts on behalf of the 1978 treaty...
Thank you for your story on Sylvester Stallone. He has made three excellent films portraying that lovable character, Rocky Balboa. I never thought I would enjoy watching two grown men beat each other up, but the Rocky movies have brought me to like the sport...
...coaches for locker-room pep talks. At V.F.W. halls, in cocktail lounges, and surgical scrub rooms, Americans on any occasion of victory or defeat, no matter how evanescent, are liable to exclaim, "It's just like Rocky!" The story of the virtuous and vulnerable heavyweight, Rocky Balboa, the Philadelphia club fighter who "went the distance" (Rocky, 1976) and battled to the championship (Rocky II, 1979), has become a red, white and blue touchstone of fable, energizing a spark of recognition that few film heroes-and fewer fighters-have ever done...