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...when he swept three Alpine-skiing gold medals at Grenoble. Le Monde, France's most influential newspaper, accused Jean-Claude of selling an exclusive picture story about himself to the weekly magazine Paris Match for $7,000 "after he imprudently offered it before numerous witnesses to the highest bidder." The Communist daily paper L'Humanité followed with another charge: that Killy last year agreed to use a brand of Italian ski poles exclusively in exchange for an unknown sum of money-and that Crespin later paid the manufacturer $6,000 to keep mum about it. Still other...
...French freelancer who was held for three weeks by the Viet Cong, offered $400,000 from a mysterious source on the grounds, as she put it, that the "last thing Che would have liked was to have his diary in the hands of Americans." For a while, the bidder most likely to win was a consortium headed by Manhattan-based Magnum Photos. Offering $125,000 for the right to publish excerpts from the diary, the group included the New York Times, Parade, Stem, Mondadori publications, the London Sunday Times and the Times of India. The group took pains to establish...
Time consciousness also forced the University to break the traditional "lump sum tender" convention in which the architect first does all the designing and makes the final blueprints upon which construction contractors later make kids. The lowest bidder is then usually chosen. Instead, University officials commissioned the architect and the contractor simultaneously...
...southwest English countryside filming Magical Mystery Tour, an hour-long TV special, for worldwide broadcast during the Christmas season. They are not only providing music but writing, directing, producing and financing as well. When it is wrapped up to their satisfaction, they will offer it to the highest bidder. And they have already written songs-later this year they may do a full score -for a forthcoming feature-length animated cartoon based on Yellow Submarine...
...city to city by truck; instead it must put the goods on a train - no mat ter how bad the connection - and ar range pickup and delivery at the other end. Last week its railroad owners at last gave up, and offered to sell the operation to the highest bidder...