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Wanted: Wallets, purses, jewelry, valuables. Please leave them on your desk, in nearby cabinets or other accessible places when you leave your office. We will slip by to pick them up. Thanks for past favors...
...families. They have established themselves as leaders of society and top island boosters, put together a $150 million business network that includes land, barges, railroads, trucking, buildings, docks and warehouses. But Hawaii no longer offers the opportunities it once did. Its old business families have seen their power gradually slip and more aggressive competitors move in to challenge their economic predominance. Building contracts are fewer, and the real estate market is weak. The Dillingham family has therefore set itself broader sights. Under the direction of third-generation Lowell Dillingham, 53, it is shucking its old parochialism and moving into...
...seven rounds, Giardello pecked at the face that Robinson once promised "ain't nobody gonna muss this up." Robinson covered up and clinched. A left hook bounced Ray to the canvas for a six-count in the fourth. The referee graciously called it a slip. With three rounds to go, Sugar Ray desperately attacked, but his punches had no sting and the officials' cards were unanimous: 49.43, 48-45, 47-43-all for Giardello. In his dressing room, while flunkies fanned his flab, Ray Robinson grimaced sadly: his $14,500 purse had been attached by federal taxmen...
...leading pianists, with 46 recordings each; Richter had only 19 three years ago, and, having made the biggest jump of any instrumentalist, he is now being denounced as a musical prostitute for turning out such a long and uneven list of recordings. David Oistrakh is beginning to slip from record shelves, but with 70 of his recordings available, he still has nearly twice as many as Jascha Heifetz, the next most popular fiddler. E. Power Biggs leads the organists, and the cellist with the largest recorded repertory is Janos Starker...
...there was one slip 'twixt the Lip and his cuppa. In the fourth round, his left eye nearly closed, blood dribbling down his cheek, Cooper lurched around the ring-swinging blindly, charging his tormentor like a maddened bull. Clay was the contemptuous matador-casually eluding Cooper's rushes, sticking his chin out, daring Cooper to hit him. Then it happened. "Clay is down!" screamed the BBC announcer. "Cooper has downed him! Oh, a beautiful punch there!" The "beautiful punch" was a sucker left hook; its chances of landing must have been 1,000 to 1. But land...