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...expected to make it a marathon session that may last three days. Speculation was that they are ready to hammer out the last kinks in an "umbrella agreement" on the city's status. Such a breakthrough could not come at a more fitting moment: this week marks the tenth anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall...
...traditional values to consider any basic change. The son of a Shakopee, Minn., house painter, he joined Chicago's Alexander Grant & Co. accounting firm as an office boy at age 20, became a partner after ten years and helped turn the organization into the nation's tenth largest accounting firm. During the late Eisenhower years he was director of the Bureau of the Budget, overseeing Washington's last set of balanced books in fiscal 1960. Then he became an investment banker until signing on as Nixon's chief fund raiser in 1968; he raised $34 million...
...hourly rates. At some, curtained-off parking stalls hide the license plates of their embarrassed clientele. U.S. aid and foreign investment in Thailand have declined markedly. In Bangkok's center, a ten-story office building completed more than a year ago has only four tenants, all on the tenth floor. Many internationally owned hotels, including the new Sheraton and the Dusit Thani, show 20% to 40% occupancy rates...
...Nicklaus, who can outdrive Trevino by 30 yds. and win any tournament when he puts his total game together. Most colorful? Most popular? From the public, there is no argument. That became dramatically apparent at the recent Canadian Open in Montreal. As Arnold Palmer stepped up to the tenth tee, an official on the adjacent first tee announced: "Now on the tee, the U.S. Open champion, Senor Lee Trevino!" Just like that, several hundred spectators deserted Arnie's Army, for years pro golf's largest entourage, to join the happy, noisy throng called Lee's Fleas...
...successive 100-yd. dashes in 9.6, 9.5 and 9.4 sec. In Meriwether's first major meet, the National Invitational in College Park, Md., in January, a field of world-class sprinters got an even bigger surprise. He won the 60-yd. dash in 6 sec. flat, just one-tenth of a second off the world record, despite a characteristically poor start. Troubled by pulled muscles, and unable to train more than two or three nights a week, Meriwether won only 2 of 12 races before his triumph in the A.A.U. 100. "I've never been frustrated by defeat...