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Phillips Brooks House this afternoon will auction 22 bicycles that have been collected by the University police over the past several years...
Jonathan D. Quick '73-74, executive vice president of PBH, estimated the sale will yield from $200 to $400 which will be used to support various PBH programs. The auction will begin at 3 p.m. in the courtyard between Phillips Brooks House and Holden Chapel...
Neither Morgan Memorial nor St. Vincent de Paul were interested in the bicycles, Tonis said, so he offered them to PBH and suggested that an auction be held. He said PBH will receive all bicycles retained in the future if the organization wants them...
...Presidency, and hence presidential power, is also auctioned off every four years to the group that bids the largest numbers of votes. Although money plays a significant role in securing the highest bid, it is by no means the only factor in winning the auction. As evidence of this witness the aspects of Watergate that are not financial at all--the genesis of the Muskie incident, the letter campaign in Florida, even the burglary of the Watergate residence...
...from trouble, the Ford has got every other car skinned." Its new owner plans to exhibit the sedan, still bloodstained and riddled with 160 bullet holes, at $2.50 a throw. For him it wasn't exactly a steal. He paid $175,000 for it at a Princeton, Mass., auction, making it the most expensive used car in history, dearer even than Adolf Hitler's Mercedes 770-K, which went to a Pennsylvania amusement-park owner for $153,000 last January...