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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 22, 1977
A. Burke Summers, 78, Dies, Retired Envoy, Consultant |
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A. Burke SUmmers, 78, a retired business and financial consultant and former ambassador to Luxembourg, died Wednesday at his home in Rockville.A world traveler and industrial consultant to many countries, Mr. Summers was President Eisenhower's ambassador to Luxembourg in 1960-61.In 1959, Eisenhower had appointed Mr. Summers to the American Committee for World Refugees and to the U.S. delegation to the inauguration of President Tubman of Liberia and the ceremonies for the... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 17, 1977
Nathaniel Ely, Lawyer for Navy |
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Nathaniel J. Ely, 66, a lawyer who helped with Navy management problems during and after World War II, and later helped in the development of Alaskan oil and gas fields, died Saturday of cancer of Georgetown University Hospital.He had also served as a Montgomery County Tax Court judge and as chairman of the D.C. police trial board.Mr. Ely lived in Bethesda and had another residence in Frenchtown, Md.He was born in Baltimore, and attended public schools there. He later studied...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 7, 1977
Rapids Ahead, an Anchor in the Bow |
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WELL, HELL, FELLA," Joe Sottosanti said, "if you're going to go to the races, you might as well compete. It's no fun just standing on the bank watching people down.""Forget it, Joe," the suburbanite said. "I've only done a few hours of whitewater canoeing in my life, and half the time I was swimming.""Nothing to worry about," he boomed,... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 5, 1977
Fighting the Blight of Big Buildings |
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Can the gigantic center-city "megastructures" of recent years - bank and office buildings, hotels, convention centers looming over downtown areas - he related to the neighborhoods of our cities, to the fabric of homes and shops that are the warp and woof of the city for people?Or must the architechtural behemoths, cold and forbidding exercises in the egotism of architects and the boosterism of big business, invariably generate "bombed out"... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - November 26, 1977
Still, the Palestinian Question |
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As the breathtaking events of the last week have so dramatically shown, anything can happen in the Middle East - with probably one exception: The odds are still heavily against the creation of an independent Palestinian state on the Israeli-occupied West Bank of the Jordan River as part of any peace settlement.That will happen, as all the major parties in the Knesset agree, only over Israel's dead body. Former Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin, who is regarded as less hawkish than...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 10, 1977
Travels In Search of a Self |
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HIS IS THE story of two people, a mother and daughter, and their long journey toward a kind of understanding - of each other, of each other's worlds and, finally, of themselves, or at least more so than when they started.It is not, fundamentally, an unusual contemporary American story of teenagers in rags, and on drugs, of all-out rebellion, of sexual promiscuity and a relentless running after - or away from - something; of incredulous and despairing parents watching their...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 23, 1977
Farm Prices Soaring |
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One year ago, good Illinois farmland was selling for about $1,050 an acre. Today the average price has soared to $1,500 - a 41 per cent increase that has caught the eye of savvy investors.Savoring those increases, one Chicago bank thought it would jump into the land-buying business, but landed instead in a stew of controversy.Continental Illinois National Bank, trying to plow some new investment ground, announced that it was planning to set up an investment trust that would buy up to...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 13, 1977
Fed Chairman Warns Financial System Is 'Especially Vulnerable' |
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International Monetary Fund officials take the relatively optimistic view that the world "can live" with the balance of payments deficit caused by oil imports, provided there is a gradual redistribution of the deficit burden.But such of shift of the deficit burden - now running at about $65 billion annually, of which about $40 billion represents the oil deficit - will require positive action by West Germany, Japan and a few other countries to reduce their current...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - November 2, 1977
Dollar Continues Its Slide |
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Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, arrived here for talks on the world economy as the U.S. dollar fell to record postwar lows in West Germany, Switzerland and Japan.As he arrived here, the city of his birth, the dollar opened at a new low of 224-15 marks.When asked by West German reporters why the U.S. had not bought dollars on the world currency markets in order to support it, Blumenthal said, "We do intervene, of course to counteract disorderly...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 15, 1977
Herbert G. Schoepke, Former Law Division Chief at Justice |
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Herbert G. Schoepke, 57, who was chief trial lawyer for the antitrust divisin of the Justice Department in several cases involving major banks and their holding companies, died Thursday after a long illness.After transferring to the antitrust division from the internal security division in 1960, Mr. Schoepke litigated antitrust cases involving large banks in the nation.Jack O'Donnell, a lawyer who worked with Mr. Schoepke, said the cases were tests of the Clayton Act,...
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