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Washington Post, The (DC) - October 30, 1977
Tepid Economy Harming Canadian Dollar |
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Will the cheaper Canadian dollar actually help troubled Canada to regain its industrial competitiveness, stem its deteriorating international balance and gets its stagnant economy moving again? Or will it prove to be only a temporary advantage that is squandered in a new bout of inflation, leaving the country back where it started, only with a debased currency?These are the questions preoccupying Canadian government officials and businessmen as they examine the year-long plunge of the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - October 2, 1977
Making It As An Aritst |
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JONATHAN MEADER has printed a second Unicorn. The first one, which he silk-screened in 1972, reclines in silver moonlight upon a figured rug beneath a blue-leafed tree. It seems a pensive beast. The second just completed, stands erect in triump before a blazzing sky. Those who know the workings of the Washington art market understand its stance of victory and pride.The Unicorns of Meadre are - if one counts dollars - among this city's most successful works of art....
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 15, 1977
Phillie Sluggers Hammer Cubs Twice |
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Crystal afternoons like this with sweet, crisp breezes off Lake Michigan perfuming Wrigley Field once prompted the great Chicago Cub Ernic Banks to fill his lungs and crow, "Let's play three."Today, two games were more than enough for his suffering cub heirs. This turned out to be a beautiful day for a baseball funeral.The Philadelphia Phillies buried the Cubs two more times, 10-2, 4-2, as Greg Luzinski and Mike Schmidt crashed three...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 4, 1977
A Wilderness Adventure Right in Our Backyard |
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POTOMAC GORGE put an end to Capt. John Smith's explorations in this part of the New World, hamstrung George Potomac for commerce, and has thwarted a thousand schemes for "developing" the rocky palisades and the river that runs past them. Praise the Lord.Which leaves Washington with a natural wonder almost unrivaled in large American cities. It is possible to leave Capitol Hill and 30 minutes later be riding the whitewater below Great Falls. For 7 1/2...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 30, 1977
Mean Streets Role |
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If you are interviewing a guy like Steven Alfonso Collura it is best that both of you are inside a bank vault, because he has made a lot of enemies.Collura was an undercover cop in New York from 1968 to 1973 who specialized in narcotics cases. He infiltrated the Mafia and set a one-year record with 126 felony narcotic buys, becoming one of the force's youngest gold-shield detectives, a high honor in the New York Police Department.He is an actor by trade, but it was the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 10, 1977
Wall Street Investors Find Only Bad News as Usual |
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Most persons cannot get enough good news.But Wall Street investors - especially those who manage the pension funds, bank trust deparments and other big investment pools - seem to be looking for as much bad news as they can find.At a time when most economist predict continued good growth for the next year and a half, although at a somewhat slower pace than the heady 7 per cent expansion of the first half of 1977, the markets continues to drift along listlessly, as it has for the last...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 25, 1977
U.S., Saudis to Press Mideast Accord |
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President Carter and Saudi Crown Prince Fahd pledged yesterday to continue the drive for a Middle East agreement despite the potential obstacle of a new right-wing Israel government. But publicly and privately, they also spoke of a disastrous war if the quest for agreement fails.White House press Secretary Jody Powell said the two men spent little time examining last week's Israeli election, which seems likely to bring to power the Likud Party and its militant leader, Menachem...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 24, 1977
Dollar Gains In Europe |
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The dollar closed generally higher in European money markets yesterday, buoyed by the prospect of higher U.S. interest rates.The price of gold continued to rise, closing $1 an ounce higher in Zurich at $139.125 an ounce and $1.80 an ounce higher in London at $139.625.In Zurich, the dollar rose sharply, the third consecutive day it has gained against the Swiss franc, to close at 2.5289 Swiss francs, up from 2.5230.The Swiss franc's decline apparently weakened other...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 23, 1977
With These Rings |
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It was a terrifying sight to those who saw it. Tearing out of the sky, the wingless fuselage of a small, single-engine plane smashed almost dead center into a yellow line dividing State Road 114, which separated two rural Indiana counties.Had it been just four inches the other way, Huntington County coroner Edward Merckx could have eaten dinner home that night. As it turned out, there would be many dinners away from home for Merckx in the next weeks because he was about to investigate the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 12, 1977
Daniel J. Meloy, 52, Dies, Served State in Japan |
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Daniel J. Meloy, 52, a former Foreign Service officer and resident of Washington, died of a heart attack Friday while swimming off the coast of Yucatan.He was the brother of the late Francis E. Meloy Jr., who was kidnaped and murdered last June while serving as U.S. ambassador to Lebanon.Daniel Meloy had joined the Foreign Service in 1949. He was a specialist in Japanese affairs and spent much of his career in Japan with intermittent assignments at the State Department here.He...
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