Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acting, of course, is superb. Zero Mostel, who played the main role in the original, is the sometime narrator slave whose desire to buy his own freedom starts the whole thing rolling. Nearly every Kerrish adjective in the book has been ascribed to him--sufficeth to say he deserves them all and more. Phil Silvers is still Bilko, but why not Bilko as a Roman whoremaster? Jack Glifford as the servile slave ("I live to grovel") would steal the picture were it not for the fact that Mostel so overshadows everything. He becomes Mostel's accomplice in a far-fetched...
...making the rounds. Now the New York police have found a way to let one man cover the ground of five: the motor scooter. Police Commissioner Howard R. Leary has already checked out 575 cops on 80 Vespas and Lambrettas. And he has just asked for funds to buy 300 more. Eventually, he wants all 2,000 patrolmen to mount...
...creation." While his students clustered around them in his living room at his Cambridge house, called Shady Hill, he spoke of the humanity that swelled in the lines and shading of the works. "I never finished a lecture," recalls John Walker, "without wanting to rush out and buy all the prints I could afford and drawings that I couldn...
...compete, whether in taking bets or providing cards, dice, or racing information. "Wire services" could not stand the ordinary competition of radio and Western Union; bookmakers could hardly be intimidate if the police were not available to intimidate them. If ordinary brokerage firms were encouraged to take accounts and buy and sell bets by telephone for their customers, it is hard to see how racketeers could get any kind of grip on it. And when any restaurant or bar or country club or fraternity house can provide tables and sell fresh decks of cards, it is hard...
...disputed building is a four-story apartment which Harvard had an option to buy. The University decided it wanted the building, and showed up at the Middlesex County Registry with cash; the owners failed to appear. They will have their chance to tell why in court next month and to argue that Harvard's option shouldn't be enforced. Meanwhile, the reason for their reluctance to sell is obvious: the land's proximity to the Library has made the option price ridiculously...