Word: avidity
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...avid collector, Los Angeles Industrialist Norton W. Simon, 61, over the past four months alone has acquired, among other art works, a Picasso, two Cezannes, three Pissarros and a millon-dollar Manet. As a company collector, Simon has been buying up businesses for years. Now, he is forming the bulk of his collection into one assemblage. Last week the directors of his Hunt Foods & Industries and two companies it controls-McCall Corp. and Canada Dry Corp.-agreed to form a single company, which will be called Norton Simon...
...automatic weapons. They cut down all but one, an Australian freelance photographer who escaped by playing dead. Cantwell, a native of Sidney, Australia, had worked for Australian and Hong Kong newspapers and the Associated Press before joining TIME as a stringer-correspondent, spoke three Chinese dialects and was an avid student of Asian languages and culture. During the past year, he had covered a wide variety of stories about the Vietnamese war for TIME. He was about to rejoin his wife and three children in Hong Kong when he set forth on his last assignment...
...Israelis have strict rules forbidding amateur archaeologists from poking around the digs and carting off whatever strikes their fancy. But who's to say no when the amateur happens to be Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, 52, hero of all Israel and avid collector of artifacts for his private backyard museum. So there he was again last week, burrowing into an ancient tomb at Azor, near Tel Aviv, and this dig almost ended in tragedy. Dayan was six feet down in a pit when the soft clay walls suddenly gave way, burying the general under their weight. Bystanders...
...from all three Spanish military academies and is now making the rounds of all Cabinet ministries, learning the ropes in long sessions with each minister. Juan Carlos also sees Franco from time to time, and the Spanish press is sometimes allowed to portray him as a popular hero. An avid sportsman, the Prince expects to be a member of Spain's Olympic sailing team at the helm of his own Dragon class boat...
...only problem which has bothered the City for longer than the proposed Inner Belt highway. The City has fought the Belt ever since it was first designed in 1948. during those 20 years, the road has been subjected to so many studies that all but the most avid Belt-watcher have lost count...