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Correspondent Steven Holmes, a native New Yorker, learned that a city slicker faces a language barrier in Benton County, Iowa. Says he: "When a farmer told me it cost him $10,000 to tile, I thought he was talking about his kitchen. He meant field drainage tiles." After several companies declined to discuss a possible reduction in Export-Import Bank funding, Correspondent Patricia Delaney approached J.I. Case, a construction-equipment manufacturer in her native Racine, Wis. "When Case executives tried to refuse, I asked them how they could turn down a request from a home-town girl," says Delaney...
...cannot quarrel with the figures, you can certainly pick a fight with the numbers-the songs. From the straight-ahead tunes of their early years, like Listen to the Music, the Doobies have turned fancier, slicker and more synthetic. They were a good singles band that was tuned up and turned into a commercial phenomenon. Producer Ted Templeman did the tuning. When he produced the first Doobies album in 1971, the band was led by Founder Tom Johnston, a hang-tough rocker who wrote many of the group's first hits. Templeman gave the early records an uncluttered, unaffected...
...told reporters in Georgia. "I registered for the things they said I did in the past. I don't have influence in Washington and I have not tried to use influence I don't have." In deed, the Libyans seem to have got little from the country slicker from Plains. But Billy was frank enough to admit in an ABC interview: "I would not have been invited to Libya if Jimmy wasn't President. They sought my friendship because I was the brother of the President." Legally, he can now operate as an agent for the Libyans...
Hard by the harbor's edge in the venerable Massachusetts fishing port of Gloucester stands the bronze statue of a fisherman, dressed in slicker and sou'wester hat and clutching a schooner's wheel. He is gazing resolutely seaward, as if on the lookout for one of the gales that have claimed thousands of local sailors since the town was settled in 1623. But today a storm of quite a different kind is swirling through Gloucester. This one pits the townspeople against the Moonies, the disciples of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, whose Unification Church has been...
...auction houses across the U.S.: Robert W. Skinner Gallery in Bolton, Mass.; Adam A. Weschler & Son and C.G. Sloan & Co. in Washington, D.C.; Mortons in New Orleans; San Francisco's Butterfield & Butterfield; West Palm Beach's Trosby Auction Galleries. The so-called country auction where the city slicker might once snap up for a song a Revere salver or a federal highboy is as distant a memory as the nickel newspaper. Says Scudder Smith, editor of Antiques and Arts Weekly, "You look around some of these little country auctions and there are 25 well-known dealers there...