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ART director Robert Brustein sparked a frenzy of bidding on the last auction lot, when he substituted an afternoon with Reeve on Martha's Vinyard for the original prize--a tennis match with Art Buchwald and Brustein. The bidding immediately went up another $1000 dollars, peaking at $2700. "I went...
"The Thais are in a very serious situation, with Vietnam, at Soviet bidding, continuing the occupation of Cambodia and involved in Laos," a U.S. Defense Department official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"We can't forfeit our bargaining power," says Healy. "To rule out any type of development would be unwise...If we eliminate a profit-oriented development from the bidding process, then the price of the land won't be competitive."
All this activity has been a boon to at least one group in the U.S.: Hollywood distributors. The new competition will almost certainly drive up prices for U.S. shows on the international market. Says MGM-TV President Lawrence Gershman of the anticipated bidding wars: "It's going to be terrific...
The conversion of 73 year-old Sheldon Hall--which was recently recognized by the National Register of Historical Places as a significant building--had been postponed during the fall of 1984 due to a controversial bidding procedure as well as "just a lot of unnecessary red tape," President Virginia Radley...