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MIKOYAN: A shrewd, sharp Armenian and a wizard at trade and barter. Intellect: brilliant. Force of character: limited...
Borgnine, married and the father of a three-year-old daughter, got his first movie job in Louis de Rochemont's The Whistle at Eaton Falls, after a World War II hitch in the Navy, a stint as scene shifter and bit player at Virginia's Barter Theater. After playing supporting roles-mostly heavies-on TV for two years, he returned to Hollywood in 1951 to act his first bad man in The Mob. As Fatso Judson in From Here to Eternity, he consolidated his role as villain, made his next half-dozen pictures to match his belligerent...
...Housemasters will continue their new "barter system" for admitting freshmen to the Houses in the future. Dean Watson announced yesterday, because the Class of 1958 has been distributed more equitably than any other freshman class...
...Received, from the Department of Justice, an opinion interpreting U.S. law as prohibiting sale or barter of surplus farm commodities to Russia or other Soviet-dominated countries...
...Colombia, in its first sizable deal with the Reds, signed up with some visiting East German drummers to barter $10 million in coffee and tobacco for light machinery. Said Pedro Bernal, manager of the Coffee Exporters' Association: "Now let's see whether we can open markets for coffee in the real Iron Curtain countries...