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...Harvey's arrangement with Janus is unclear, especially since it is a verbal rather than a written agreement. Two Law School profes-sors-one an expert in anti-trust law, the other an authority on film law-said that this might be a case of "coercion from the buyer's side" and thus in restraint of fair trade. Both said they would need more information to make a judgment...
While stating quite clearly that the University's primary function is to search for truth, the report admits that this ideal has been strayed away from, resulting in the University's subservience to a "buyer's market" created by the government and large industries. Because of this, it says, students have been turned out as "products" for the technological demands...
...horror examples," fumed Romney. Still, he conceded that "some shocking situations" do exist. The FHA has already tightened its appraisal rules, increased its inspections and raised its property standards in an effort to stop the speculative spree. Romney, a onetime president of American Motors, noted that a used-car buyer often finds that "it is tough to keep somebody from taking advantage of you. Well, it's child's play compared to the used-house business...
Personal letters, most people know, can be great liars, because they expose only the best qualities of their senders. What about Christmas cards? The lie no longer matters. It has been institutionalized and glistens with cool professionalism. Thus the buyer can guiltlessly sign someone else's platitude and blithely send it as his own generous thought...
...auction record, $2.3 million in 1961 for Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, and the record for a private sale, an estimated $5,000,000 that was paid in 1967 for Leonardo's Ginevra dei Bend, by Washington's National Gallery of Art. The buyer of the Velásquez, Alec Wildenstein, 30, vice president of the New York firm of Wildenstein, firmly denied that he was acting on behalf of any art collector. Said he: "To buy this painting at that price is no risk. This is really cheap." Still, the expansive price staggered...