Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outnumbered tourists to France-by 100,000. Cote d'Azur hotel owners complained of a 20% slump in reservations last summer. Lately there have been some cancellations by American Jews incensed by De Gaulle's chutzpah. At Sage's Chicago restaurants, notices urge customers not to buy French wines. California wine growers are enjoying a record year, in part because some bibbers are switching from the cheaper grades of French wine to domestic brands. But the higher-priced types of French wines and brandies are holding up well. Oenological experts are not yet angry enough...
Thus its customers, ranging from the burghers who buy $2,750 Model 200 sedans to the big business "Herr Direktors" who cruise in 20-ft., $16,000 Grand Mercedes limousines, are least hurt by the recession...
Students at the University of California at Berkeley were the first to join the grape-picker's struggle. Early in the strike, they contributed their lunch money to buy food for the strikers, who live on five dollars a week...
Jeweled Eggs. For all his quirks, Henry had a remarkable eye. Without relying on professional advice, except occasionally from Bernard Berenson, he rambled all over Europe, picking up Italian primitives, Byzantine silver, Renaissance bronzes and Persian ceramics. He sailed into St. Petersburg on his yacht to buy Faberge jeweled eggs...
...bloopers notwithstanding, he was one of the best in the business from 1935 to 1952, when he broadcast for the Detroit Lions, Washington Redskins and New York Giants, and piled up enough of a fortune by 1959 to buy his own team, the A.F.L.'s New York Titans. The team went nowhere and the fans went elsewhere, forcing Wismer to sell out for $1,000,000 in 1963 to Sonny Werblin, who is now making it big with his New York Jets...