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Perhaps the most telling comment on the ambiguousness of the presidential balance sheet came from Kansas G.O.P. Congressman Bob Dole, who suggested that the Republican Party "offer to buy his holdings for the price he now places on them." Said Dole: "I am sure that we could sell these same properties at a very good price and use the profit to finance the campaign of Barry Goldwater...
...President since Grover Cleveland. "No decision has been made," said an executive of the Chicago Daily News, which has regularly endorsed Republican presidential candidates in living memory. "However, there is no question about the paper's position with respect to Goldwater to date. We just don't buy...
...said the manager of the New York Yankees, "nobody asked me to buy the club. Mickey and I would have bought it." But others were not so amused last week upon hearing that the Yankees had been sold to the Columbia Broadcasting System. "I think it's lousy," said Chicago White Sox Owner Arthur Allyn, who objected to the hurry-up way the league had polled its owners for permission. "This is a hell of a way to run the American League," roared Kansas City Owner Charles Finley, who objects to everything. But the league's eight other...
From the CBS channel of view, there were just as many reasons to buy. The $11.2 million price is small change for a network that cleared $41 million last year. CBS is already massively committed to sports ventures-it has agreed to pay $31.8 million to the National Football League in the next two years. Owning a club in the world's biggest market also puts CBS in a stronger position to deal with the pay-TV problem, since the network will be able to control whether the Yankees are seen for free or for pay. In fact...
Some of the trade is also two-way: many Westerners buy up dirt-cheap satellite currency at home and smuggle it into the East to buy the satellites' few quality products, such as Hungarian salami or Prague glassware, then take them back West. But the more standard practice is for travelers from Eastern Europe to finance their trips by bringing back Western goods. Nylons from the U.S. will bring $5 or $6 in Warsaw. Professional Polish operators regularly swing far bigger deals. Gangs travel two or three times a week to the Baltic port of Gdynia, where they buy...