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...private domain, however, the actor was an absolute monarch: "a small mind in hideous contrast with the overlarge body," as Thomson characterizes him in his New Biographical Dictionary of Film. The pair accepted an advance for the novel from a British publisher in 1982, but Brando eventually repaid the money. Thereafter he teased the disappointed Cammell back into an edgy relationship in which future projects were discussed but never completed. The writer, devastated by more than the usual number of failures and humiliations endemic in the movie business, committed suicide...
...Civil War Ransom. When Confederate soldiers surrounded Frederick, Md., in 1864 and threatened to destroy federal stores unless a ransom was paid, townspeople rustled up $200,000. The victorious Union never repaid the money, and outgoing Maryland Senator Charles Mathias has been trying to collect it for a dozen years. Last week he finally succeeded...
...time, Pae's parents came to see a larger debt being repaid. "I came to this country with an empty fist," says Hyongchol. "But now we own a house, have two sons. We have enjoyed so much here, and I always have felt like I was riding on a train without a ticket." For a family that journeyed to this country for artistic freedom, it took a soldier of a son to finally pay the fare...
...DEBT REPAID...
...recently as 1979, California's BankAmerica was the world's largest and most profitable financial company, but it has since slipped behind New York's Citicorp, mainly as a result of losses from loans not repaid by developing countries and by such troubled industries as agriculture, real estate and shipping...