Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington for Roosevelt's inauguration without a dress suit and was described in the newspapers as "the man who attended the inauguration in a rented suit." Recalled Dirksen: "It was a frightful embarrassment, and it resulted promptly in the raising of a fund of $2,700 to buy me a white tie and a long-tailed coat." He said that he had not used the money for that purpose, finally giving it to charity, but added: "I felt I might have been justified in doing...
...January 1958, Thompson was ordered to report to the Air Force base in Great Falls, Mont. "When I told them, the Russians got shook up and excited," he recalled. "They gave me $1,000 and told me to buy a short-wave radio and tune in on a special part of the band and listen for the code words 'Amour Lenin.' " The Reds gave him a cigarette lighter decorated with four aces and told him a Soviet agent with an identical lighter would meet him in front of a movie theater in Smiths Falls, Ont., 1,650 miles...
...student who likes to buy but not to read bocks has a special prize. $1760 is awarded annually to a student who has taken a curse in English and who submits "the most understanding essay on the true spirit of book collecting." Another prize requiring more talent than work is the Austin B. Mason Prize for outstanding work in the field of soil mechanics. The Clemans Herschel Prize in restricted to students enrolled in courses in practical hydraulics, but such courses are easier passed than found at Harvard...
...Brooklyn-born son of a mortgage broker, DiLorenzo made his first deal at 17. He borrowed $1,100 to buy a brownstone, which he sold for $3,000. In 1951 he teamed with Goldman, a boyhood pal who was running a wholesale grocery for his ailing father, to buy a 600-unit apartment. DiLorenzo considers it merely "human nature" that his rapid rise led the Government to scrutinize his activities a few years ago. "I had four FBI men following me for some time," he says with a smile. "But they dropped the investigations." Now DiLorenzo and Goldman...
...unknown. The paperbacks are magnetized by dollar success. The product they want is the writer who has already established himself at the far end of the slow, heavily edited and thoroughly disciplined route provided by hard-cover publishing houses. But once such a man has arrived, the paperbacks will buy him-and they are currently willing and able to pay nearly any price...