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...most precious French prize to fall into English hands since Joan of Arc. At 2 o'clock one morning last July, a large crate was off-loaded at London airport. Inside was a 51-in. by 76-in. oil painting by Paul Cézanne. Called Les Grandes Baigneuses, or The Bathers, it had been purchased by Britain's National Gallery for $1,400,000, the highest published price ever paid for a French painting. Unlike Joan of Arc, the English were not altogether sure that they wanted...
...hours a day, bowler-hatted Detective Sergeant Edmund Murray, Sir Winston's longtime personal bodyguard, kept order in the crowded street. When Churchill's life appeared to be ebbing, Moran relayed Lady Churchill's request that reporters and TV crews disperse. Within minutes, the arc lights winked out, endless coils of wire were cleared away, and the street was empty, with one small glow showing through the fanlight...
Most of the money, $1.17 billion, goes for military assistance. Three-fourths of that amount is earmarked for the eleven countries that border the Communist bloc in "the great arc from Greece to Korea": Greece, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Laos, South Viet Nam, Formosa, the Philippines, and South Korea. An additional $369 million in "supporting assistance" is to be allocated to help maintain economic stability in the countries that the U.S. is aiding militarily; of that amount, 88% would go to South Viet Nam, Laos, Korea and Jordan. More than $500 million of the military and supporting assistance would...
...companies have enjoyed greater success with largesse than Cleveland's Lincoln Electric Co., the world's largest maker of arc-welding equipment. With its sales up nearly 15% this year to $100 million, Lincoln distributed a $12.8 million "incentive bonus" to its 1,582 employees. That makes an average of $8,190 per employee and sets a record even for a company that has dispensed $126 million in bonuses over 31 years. Lincoln's chairman James F. Lincoln, 81, credits the bonus-which lifts his typical employee's annual income to $13,000-for everything from...
...Have love as you do this thing," cooed Folk Singer Joan Baez, "and it will succeed." It was a battle cry, not a ballad. Marching behind their Joan of Arc, who was wearing a jeweled crucifix, a thousand undergraduates of the University of California at Berkeley stormed four-story Sproul Hall, the school's administration building. For 15 hours they camped in the corridors, whanged guitars, played jacks, watched Charlie Chaplin movies. Stairwells be came "freedom" classrooms. An alcove was a kitchen where coeds made thousands of sandwiches for the all-night siege. The school had locked the bath...