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When the bidding reached ?100,000 ($280,000), the bulky old gentleman in the puce-and-green-striped tie emitted a genteel "whew," and he blinked his eyes incredulously at every ?10,000 jump thereafter. The work on sale last week at Sotheby's in London was his: Rembrandt...
Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman set up his own lobbying headquarters in House Speaker John McCormack's office, drew from one wavering Southerner a reluctant tribute: "He's the most persuasive man I've ever listened to." Illinois' Congressman Leslie C. Arends, the Republican whip, charged that...
> LEAD AND ZINC are low-priority items (90% of U.S. needs are supplied from the U.S. and adjacent Canada and Mexico) that reached their stockpile objective in 1954. Yet the Eisenhower Administration ordered the Government to purchase an additional 760,000 tons at prices above the market-which cost some...
At the bidding of a dental-health educator, the kids chomped energetically on a wad of flavored wax. When the wax had done its job of stimulating a free flow of saliva, the dentist collected a saliva sample from each child and mixed it with a special reagent. Within a...
"Our bidding procedure," he said, "is quite frank and open. The MTA has an obligation to get the highest possible bid price for its land."