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...were the hits (Deep Throat) the bombs (Lost Horizon), the sensations (Last Tango in Paris) and the sensation-mongers (The Exorcist), the uppers (Happy New Year) and the downers (Slither), the hype-mades (The Long Goodbye), the homemades (Joyce at 34) and the readymades (Paper Moon and The Paper Chase--real paste-up jobs), the libbers (A Doll's House), the lobbers (Bang the Drum Slowly), and the cops and robbers movies playing red-light green-light with the good-guy hot seat--clearly the list eludes an all-embracing label...
When TIME'S Energy section made its debut last November, Iker notes, "The pace became even more hectic." One Saturday night six weeks ago, guests began arriving at Iker's home in Chevy Chase, Md., for an 8 o'clock dinner party. "I had just finished reporting for a full-page box on John Love, Nixon's chief energy adviser. As the first guest arrived, the phone rang, and I was notified that Love was to be replaced by Simon. As we passed by each other at the front door, I told my guests to help...
...Senate Government Operations subcommittees, headed by Maine's Edmund Muskie and Montana's Lee Metcalf, says that the levers of corporate control are held by "a few institutional investors, principally six superbanks headquartered in New York." Of those six, the subcommittees found that as of 1972 the Chase Manhattan Bank was the largest single stockholder in 20 companies, First National City was the biggest owner in nine firms, Morgan Guaranty in four, Bankers Trust and Chemical in three each, and Bank of New York in two. Altogether, the report named 28 institutions, including insurance companies and mutual funds...
Largely by administering trust funds, including burgeoning pension funds, banks have great and growing stock powers. In communications, for example, the report cited Federal Communications Commission records of July 1972 to show that the Chase Manhattan Bank had full or partial control over more than 14% of the stock of the Columbia Broadcasting System and 4.5% of the stock of RCA, the parent of the National Broadcasting Co.; Bankers Trust Co. voted more than 10% of the stock of the American Broadcasting Co. and just under 10% of the stock of Metromedia. Banks have been so deeply into broadcasting that...
...utilities, the report cited a 1971 Federal Power Commission study showing major banks to be among the largest shareholders of many electrical companies. Chase Manhattan for example was among the top ten shareholders in 42 companies; Morgan Guaranty Trust was a top ten shareholder in 41. The banks' holdings in other institutions, particularly insurance companies, are also growing...