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...years Jedlicka had been hearing rumors that some of the city's smaller suburban savings and loan associations were in trouble, but the first hard news came with last April's announcement that tiny Hillside S. & L. (assets: $13.9 million) was being merged with financially stronger Oak Park Federal S. & L. ($147 million). Jedlicka wrote the story as a straight news item; then he began...
...Laroche run up her dresses. She owns a dozen fur coats, a Goya, a Renoir, a Fiat and a Rolls-Royce. She applies her perfume to her clothes, rather than to her skin. Her favorite scent is a mixture of geraniol, rhodinol, cedryl, acetate, jasmine, geranium, santal, patchouli, oak moss and Tibetan musk. It is called "Madame Rochas...
...held dear by Lyndon in running the Senate, and Bobby was the expert at estimating the overall mood. While so engaged, Baker was forever scurrying back and forth across the Democratic side of the floor. Indeed, at times he looked like a busy, busy squirrel that owned a great oak tree and spent its days dashing about the limbs to make sure all the acorns remained in place. Part of Baker's job was keeping track of the voting. On important measures, he usually kept tab on narrow white tally sheets. On the more routine votes, he would more...
...Even more spectacular children," he says, "may becoming out of the intellectual colonies like Oak Ridge or Los Alamos, where one man in six has a Ph.D., and out of the faculty communities of the great universities, where all the men and many of the women have advanced degrees." In the common - or uncommon-schools of such centers, says Platt, "whole classes of 130s and 140s may be seen, from kindergarten through high school." Among the results: a 13-year-old studying atomic physics seriously, an eleven-year-old taking college courses, an eight-year-old doing graduate work...
...built a many-chambered nautilus. Johansen, who trained under Walter Gropius, has veered away from the Master's Bauhaus cubism into a vocabulary of curves and coils, pleasing both to look at and to live in. The Taylor house is cast in forms of rough-sawed random-width oak slabs, which give concrete a rich, grainy texture. Says Johansen: "I think of a house as a series of shells which contain human organisms; the outside of the shell is an epidermis, and it can be as rough as the seaworn shells one finds on the beach. The inner surface...