Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Benton, 76. Did putting his work up for stamps bother the crusty Missouri artist? Not a bit, said Benton, who was paid around $5,000 for the painting. "I've always liked the idea of popularizing paintings." The next question is what popularized art lover is going to buy the $296,250 worth of merchandise and lick the 2,962,500 stamps he will need to purchase...
...between $600,000 and $800,000, according to federal estimates. In the last ten years the price of real estate has actually quadrupled-from a song to a high-pitched scream of disbelief. Nevertheless, there is still an apparently endless waiting list of people who are anxious to buy...
Thus there is a new breed of sailor that doesn't sail-at least not much or far. Says Dave Parker, executive vice president of the Hatteras Yacht Co.: "People who buy these yachts aren't sailors-they're landlubbers. They like to get there fast and drink long." And to enjoy Beethoven in stereo and bourbon on the rocks, the owner of a modern yacht must hook up to a marina's power line (and he often wants a telephone line) almost as soon as he shuts off his engine; his appliances draw too much...
...membership fees, the lower capital requirements and the less restrictive rules; some regionals go so far as to let their members split fees with nonmembers. The Big Board, on the other hand, bans fee splitting with nonmembers, including even such big customers as mutual funds and pension funds, who buy and sell shares in mammoth blocks. In a move that stunned most of the investment community, the Pacific Exchange recently became the nation's first to admit mutual-fund management companies to membership-a move that, if it becomes a trend, could cause brokers to go flocking...
...trousers and weak in the head. At 27, he imagines himself a sort of composite TV cowboy and spends most of his time riding mattresses. Somehow he decides that riding conditions are better in the East: "The men there is just faggots mostly, so the women got to buy what they want." As the book begins, he is heading for Manhattan with mounting hopes...