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...even wondered whether the Carter Administration had fallen. As the week progressed, they became increasingly critical of the President. "He always acts too late and thus appears to be the victim rather than the master of events," summed up Les Edgar, a managing director of London's Sharps, Pixley & Co., bullion brokers...
...Sharps, Pixley...
Buchanan combines jazz, country, blues and rock 'n' roll, but he first learned music in church in the California farming town of Pixley (pop. 1,584). His father, a Pentecostal preacher, gave him his first guitar when he was five. At 15, Buchanan left for Los Angeles and began bumming around the country. ("I can remember sleepin' in fields. I can remember sleepin' in bars.") The roving life also got him what he calls "messed up on dope." Then came a day of revelation: "I had a vision one night. I saw Hell. I fell...
...BARBARA PIXLEY WHITE Los Angeles...
...quarter past noon every working day, half a dozen agents from London's three big bullion dealers meet in the teak-paneled board room of Sharps, Pixley & Co., for a gentlemanly haggle that sets the price of silver in Britain-and much of the rest of the world. Last week every one of the agents was saying the same: "I'm a buyer-not a seller." With that, the price of silver hit a 42-year record of $1.14 per oz. in London, also advanced to $1.13 in New York City, which is the world's other...