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...Hi...No, I'm really sorry. My grandmother is going to be in town that day and she is taking me out to dinner." Pause...
Even before her husband Chester, president of a 250-store grocery chain, died in 1970, Marjorie Jackson (as she was known) entertained rarely and never mixed hi local circles. After Chester's death, she became even more reclusive. Says a neighbor: "The shock of losing him really cracked her." She withdrew into "the Bible," as she put it. She set aside four days of the week as "holy days" for meditation and organ playing. One holiday, she set her dining table for twelve-though no guests were invited and no meal was prepared. Piled high in one room were...
...neutralize the layout, the shape, the composition in order to get at the color. Pollock had indicated getting away from drawing. I wanted to make color the generating force." On this proposition, and the paintings that flowed from it, a palace of exegesis was raised-an academy so pervasive hi its effect during the '60s that hundreds of younger artists from New York to Sydney could see no way past it. The polished assurance of Noland's style, its clear-cut shifts of format and structure succeeding one another like the terms of a syllogism, combined with...
...woman's weapon snatched from a purse to dispatch an errant lover. No self-respecting all-pro killer would carry one. The facts, however, are otherwise. The CIA has long preferred the .22. The agency's predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services, developed a silencer-equipped Hi-Standard .22-cal. automatic pistol during World War II. It turned out to be the only production-model handgun that can be effectively silenced, and it has been the favorite of spooks ever since. Now, says the FBI, the .22 has found new fans...
...advance of price and wage boosts. In a small and select number of cases, the principals will be invited to Washington to hear suggestions that their increases be modified. As Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal told the National Association of Manufacturers in March: "Let me assure you, as one trained hi business, that we know the difference between coercion and cooperation...