Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. By Maureen O'Hara, 32 Dublin-born cinemactress (The Quiet Man): Hollywood Producer-Director Will Price, 38 (Strange Bargain, Tripoli); after 11½ years of marriage; one daughter; in Hollywood, Calif...
...With a promise of fuels, metals and instruments for his second Five Year Plan, he seemed to have the better of the deal. But that did not disturb the Communists. For them, the treaty was a foot in the door of Latin American trade. Politically it was a good bargain; it just might push the door wide open for a procession of Soviet agents in technicians' clothing. Explained a member of the Soviet commission: "Obviously, technicians will be required for maintenance of our equipment. There are two possible solutions to this problem. Argentines can be sent to Russia...
When Sir John Morison, 60, a canny Scottish accountant, took over Britain's steel denationalization program four weeks ago, he made it clear that he intended to drive a Scottish bargain. Said he: "Some people seem to think we're going to give the things away . . . We're after a good price, and we're going to get it." In his first sale last week, Bargainer Morison lived up to his word. In a $3,000,000 deal, he sold two-thirds of the stock of Templeborough Rolling Mills to British Ropes, Ltd. and William Cooke...
...Korea. The U.S., he insisted, had committed itself to joining him in resuming the war. The U.S. had made no such flat promise. On the other side of the globe, the British rose to a gentlemanly boil when they read that John Foster Dulles would not agree to a bargain that admitted the Chinese aggressors to the U.N. Dulles also said, before taking off for Korea to visit Rhee, that the U.S. would walk out of the Korean talks after 90 days if they were getting nowhere...
...branch of an 800-year-old line, and after she died last winter her collection went up for auction. By common consent most big dealers withheld their bids, and when the auctioneer's hammer fell for the last time, Detroit owned Sassetta's prized Agony for a bargain $25,000. The institute could hardly believe its good luck at bringing together three pictures that had been separated for centuries. Said Assistant Director Paul L. Grigaut: "Both English and American dealers were very cricket about it. Our biggest trouble was getting it away from Italian collectors. Amazingly enough, they...