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...been on the decline for some time in Yugoslavia. But for the folk-art fancier, there is still plenty of honey in the old hives: genuine antique beehive paintings now bring up to $1,600 apiece. And at least one enterprising Slovenian, Vid Sedej, 28, is doing a brisk business selling his contemporary versions of beehive paintings at $3 apiece...
...College Placement Council, the average starting salary for chemical engineers, last year's highest-paid group-at $682 a month-has risen to $733. Math and physics students are getting $698, compared with $648 in 1966. Even the $589 that lowly humanities students got was a brisk increase over last year...
Gunn. In his day (1958-61), he was so cool that frost used to form on his dialogue. His wardrobe was so kempt that he had creases in his sweaters. Anyone who hired Private Eye Peter Gunn knew he was getting the real TV goods: come-what-mayhem, brisk backchat, and a solid Henry Mancini score between the commercials...
...that he begins the day with assorted situps, nip-ups, bends, lifts, kicks, flutters, isometrics and 300 pushups. Neither these nor his labors in the Senate give him quite the exercise he craves. Last week a startled photographer caught the Senator in sweatshirt and tennis shorts midway through a brisk jog from home to work -a lung-flaying distance of 4.7 paved miles between Cleveland Park and Capitol Hill that Proxmire traces every morning, retraces every night. He covers the route in 35 minutes, beating the bus by 15 minutes, and estimates that he saves "about $1,000 a year...
Business was brisk there and at the store-front gallery he operated in Palm Beach. But at least one buyer became suspicious of Stein's paintings and his surprising ability to produce papers from Paris guaranteeing them on almost overnight notice. Manhattan Dealer Irving Yamet took his six Chagalls to the D.A.'s office...