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...assets before buying into the Estate Zone. And he is blocked from ownership in the Suburban Zone-unless he either finds a white owner ready to sell privately ("perhaps," as the rules suggest, "at a premium"), bids highest at a white's bankruptcy auction, or lucks onto an opportunity card that opens the suburbs to him. He may, of course, run into another sort of op portunity card. One that says, for ex ample, "Mayor Daley reelected. You are picked up and taken directly to the police station for interrogation." Or "Draft call. Roll dice. If you roll...
Local blacks loudly protested, demanding that the students auction the car to reimburse the black community with the money they had wasted on the car. The students finally raised the money to pay the blacks...
While the rest of the economy suffers depressions, the art market soars. At an auction last week in Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, buyers spent $5,852,250 for 72 Impressionist and modern paintings, another $906,375 for 19th and 20th century sculpture. The biggest sale was Van Gogh's Le Cypres et I'Arbre en Fleurs, a sun-touched landscape he painted in the asylum at St. Remy in the last busy and desperate year of his life. It is a relatively small canvas (20¼ in. by 25½ in.), certainly...
...their used cars at prices that the dealer cannot match. A rental agent, for example, pays $152 less for a new Buick than a dealer does, and the difference can range up to $200 on other makes. To hold maintenance costs down, most agencies sell off their fleets at auction or elsewhere every four or six months and replace them with new ones. Result: the renters flood the market with almost-new cars, which provide tough competition for both the dealers' new cars and much older used cars...
That is only part of the problem. The big rental companies sell their barely used autos at bargain prices in auctions regularly held in cities and towns all over the U.S. The auctions are closed to the public but open to all kinds of dealers, including gas-station operators who sell autos. An individual can choose a car before the auction, pay a willing used-car dealer to bid for him, and still save...