Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cleopatra, Zanuck said, the key scenes are fine but the continuity and, in some places, the photography are disappointing. A "more or less drastic" editing is needed before it can be released in mid-May. "I can't afford the luxury of more talk," Zanuck says. "Interest on the $35 million the picture has consumed amounts to $7,000 a day. Completing work on it will cost a couple million more." Then, assuring all who would listen that Mankiewicz is still welcome "for debates and conversations about what I do to the film," Zanuck retreated to the consolations...
More than a Program. For all its popularity, Playbill is faced with occupational hazards that no other periodical has to cope with. Although it grosses $1,500,000 annually in ad revenues, its net profit is chronically so low (about $40,000 after taxes this year) that it can afford only a one-man editorial staff: Editor Charles L. Mee Jr., 24, Guest contributors - Producer David Merrick, Playwright Emlyn Williams, Gossip Columnist Leonard Lyons -are paid nothing at all, or honorariums so embarrassingly low that Playbill chooses to keep the amounts a secret...
...boats competing for the right to defend against the Aussies this year spent something like $1,000,000 among them. The U.S. crews are almost all amateurs who beg or borrow time off from their jobs and businesses to compete; Bus Mosbacher, who skippered Weatherly to victory, cannot afford any more time away from his family oil business. Firmly, but politely, the New York Yacht Club replied that it would deal with the British challenge two years from now, in 1964. "A bitter disappointment," said the Royal Thames Yacht Club, but the Britons agreed to wait until then...
...Rolls boasts twin horizontal headlights, a lower hood, wider grille and hotter engine (around 270 h.p.). For the select minority who can afford Rolls prices (from $15,655 in the U.S. for the Silver Cloud II to $27,617 for the Park Ward), this was big news. But for Rolls-Royce Ltd. itself, autos are now little more than a sideline. Since World War II, the company has diversified into everything from rocket engines to nuclear propulsion systems for submarines. By so doing, it has become one of Britain's notable growth companies; since 1950 its sales have soared...
Peabody's campaign manager, Rep Thomas P. O'Neill of Cambridge, made this point forcefully when he declared that Massachusetts "cannot afford to have a governor who campaign against our favorite son every time he leaves the state...