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Although Grania is the chief culprit, the three of them bark and bite at one other all night in a manner not unlike the Tyrones in Long Day's Journey into Night. Lady Gregory's penchant for folk dialect and fairly elaborate imagery prevent the encounters from being quite so acerbic, and give the characters a sort of distance. There's not an awful lot you can do with only two or three characters on stage, and director John Pym settles for movement that is simple and unobtrusive...
...Bunkie Knudsen cautiously allowed, "only time will tell" if he can reverse Chevrolet's lead. He likes to remember one of the few pieces of advice his father gave him: "In this business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you." Bunkie Knudsen has been mostly running ever since the day in 1927 when his father announced that he could have a new Chevrolet if he would stop by the plant. Bunkie, 14, found the car waiting-in several thousand pieces. "It took me a couple of months...
Climbing Rates. This year's spurt of borrowing has already driven interest rates up by ½%, to 7¼% for ordinary Eurobonds. To keep rates from climbing higher, some European central banks have been feeding dollars into the private market. U.S. corporate borrowers have kept the interest bite down to 5% by making their offerings eligible for later conversion to common stock. Though conversions dilute the value of shares owned by existing stockholders, the 2% difference in interest could mean a $6,000,000 saving over the 20-year life of $30 million of bonds...
MONTREAL--Even in the dead of Montreal's winter, today may be the first day of the rest of your life. For the young American who has just crossed the Canadian border fleeing the bite of the draft, there isn't much choice. Today's beginning is legally yesterday's ending...
...York, the state bite has been especially feral in recent years, largely because of Governor Nelson Rockefeller's ambitious health and education programs and New York City's staggering fiscal woes. Last week New Yorkers winced again when Rockefeller presented his 1968 budget to the state legislature...