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Henry Ford II came with 246 others for Henry Kissinger's lunch in his eighth-floor salon. The auto prince smiled and burbled with cheer as he was plucked from his assigned place at one of the lesser tables and put at the head table to fill a vacancy. His handsome wife moved from friend to friend with smiles and short, warm busses...
Donna Francesca (Lucia Bose), the wife of the hospital director; Bianca (Marthe Keller), a nurse; and Carla (Barbara Bouchet), who is married to a member of Bonaccorsisi's staff. Other, lesser men may thirst for a glimpse of the world out side, but the asylum is sufficient for the doctor, who spends his time between rounds and beddings in the laboratory trying to isolate "the germ of schizophrenia." It is clear he has been inside the walls too long...
...there were no limit. Yet the more it has increased taxes, the more people and businesses it has driven from the city, thus further eroding the tax base. In addition to an 8% city sales tax, a city income tax is levied on residents and - to a lesser extent - on commuters. A New York family of four earning $15,000 a year pays a city tax of $179 (as well as a state in come...
...Brenton Harries, president of Standard & Poor's Corp., the investment-research firm. Harries warned that civil disorder might follow a default and added: "As unpalatable as the specter of federal intervention is, the social and economic consequences of default of the proportions we are facing clearly make it the lesser of two evils...
...blacklist primarily affected the Business School, and to a lesser degree, the Medical School and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, spokesmen from the three schools said yesterday...