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Throughout its 41-year history, Merrill Lynch & Co. has tried to bring Wall Street to Main Street. By any measure, America's most bullish brokerage house has succeeded. From Bellingham, Wash., to Bradenton, Fla., 75% of all Americans live within 25 miles of one of Merrill Lynch's 476 offices. As a result, the company is bigger than its three closest publicly held competitors-Shearson Loeb Rhoades, E.F. Hutton and Dean Witter Reynolds-put together...
March 3--Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) wins the Massachusetts Democratic presidential primary; President Ford wins the Republican race...
...Beautiful Moscow soap that sold for 60? when available in state-run stores was going for $2.25. The service on the black market, though, proved as surly as elsewhere. Snipped the soap seller: "Everything costs what it costs. If you don like the price, don't wash." Said a defeated Dorofeyev: "I had to wash, so I paid...
Entered in the local reporting category, Cooke's story lost out to the Longview (Wash.) Daily News, which was cited for its coverage of the Mount St. Helens eruption. But the Pulitzer Prize board was so impressed with Cooke's work that it gave her the award in another category, overturning the feature writing jury's choice of Teresa Carpenter of the Village Voice, who was belatedly given the honor after the fraud was discovered. Says Board Member Osborn Elliott, dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism: "It was a very dramatic telling...
Malle's characters are always cleaning themselves, washing their hands, trying to rid themselves of the soot and the smells of their city. In the film's opening shot, Sarandon goes through a ritual of purification that appears like a refrain through the movie: to remove the fish-smell from her body after her workday as an oyster-bar waitress, she squeezes lemon-halves over her arms, shoulders, chest and breasts. Dingily unerotic, bathed in orange light, the sequence seems more satanic than baptismal. It distills the almost misanthropic repulsion towards this city that guides Malle's direction: nothing...