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...First Chicago Center in Chicago, is virtually a monologue, spoken like a Runyonesque incantation by Erie Smith (Ben Gazzara), a small-time hustler and horseplayer. Erie ("I was dragged up in Erie, P-A-some punk burg") returns early one morning in 1928 to his fleabag hotel, after a five-day binge. With a snappy-brim hat, stubble on his chin, a nearly empty pint in his pocket and a cigarette wheeze that makes his fits of laughter sound like emphysema, Erie has the jauntiness of a doomed sucker...
Spiritual Drive. The only firmly scheduled return of man to space is next year's joint U.S.-Soviet mission. In preparation for that three- to five-day, linked-up swing round the earth, Russian space technicians and cosmonauts are frequent visitors to NASA these days. Though the docking of superpower space travelers will doubtless provide a compelling symbol of peaceful cooperation between nations, space buffs are inclined to view it as a political rather than a piloting event...
...Merrill Lynch imposes stiff requirements designed to cut its own costs. Stock certificates must be held by the firm to avoid the paper work of transferring ownership; no credit or margin purchases are offered; customers must send their cash or stock in advance instead of being granted the usual five-day grace period to pay up. To eliminate the expense of executing many small transactions, Merrill Lynch fills most cut-commission orders in a bunch at the opening of trading the day after the money arrives. Under this arrangement, an overnight rise of only half a point could wipe...
...permitted herself was a nude pose for Playboy magazine. But it was all coming together. Two weeks into the spring meeting at New York's Aqueduct, Mary for the first time ranked among the track's top ten jockeys. Only slightly set back by a five-day suspension (for careless riding and interference) last week that interrupted her triumphant career, Mary had a simple explanation for her success: "Women have a better temperament for this work. Getting along with a horse is like winning over a child. You bullshit your way along...
Dean Rosovsky announced December 5 that because of the energy crisis Harvard would extend its Christmas vacation to include the week of January 7 and eliminate the five-day intersession period. During that first week of reading period under the old schedule subscribers would have received six daily papers and one Sunday issue...