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...Thursday, at noon. That night the staff spent $560 for a dinner at Joseph's, a restaurant they listed in the conference program as "very expensive" and the "favorite of Proper Bostonians." They went out to lunch and dinner at restaurants on Friday and Saturday, spending $240 at the cheapest meal, and then ended the conference with a $46.3 lunch on Sunday. There was also an $800 liquor bill--the delegates being underage couldn't drink, but their faculty advisers and the Harvard students could--and several miscellaneous expenses, personal expenses and petty cash items. All the money came from...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: Blurred Distinctions | 3/13/1975 | See Source »

...Spanish-born Harvard student who later rocketed to fame as one of the great early 20th century philosophers, arrived at Harvard to find his "first room, on the ground floor in the northeast corner of Hollis, was one of the cheapest to be had in Cambridge: the rent was forty-four dollars a year. I had put it first for that reason on my list of rooms, and got my first choice. It was so cheap because it had no bedroom, no water, and no heating...

Author: By Margaret A. Shapiro, | Title: Rich Boys And Poor Boys | 3/7/1975 | See Source »

...vinegared rice known as sushi, has been continuously made in Nara prefecture for more than a thousand years. But everything in the show is to this day a standard form of packaging among a number-diminishing, alas-of shops, stalls and manufacturers. For this reason, "Tsutsumu "is probably the cheapest design exhibition yet put on by a New York museum (total bill for buying the contents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Throwaway Bamboo | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

...report says that although businessmen and public officials throughout the world agree that nuclear reactors will probably provide the cheapest source of electricity in the future, the construction costs of reactor systems are climbing "at alarming rates...

Author: By Jon Finegold, | Title: Soaring Costs May Halt Construction Of Nuclear Plants | 2/21/1975 | See Source »

When Mr. Pots and Pans is not on one of his frequent buying trips to Europe, he patrols four floors of highly variegated merchandise. His cheapest item is a 5? cork, his most expensive a $500 copper pot suitable for an entire sheep. Between these terminals is a treasury of the familiar and exotic. Prosaic pepper mills and soup bowls huddle with sophisticated croissant cutters and the French Cuisinart Food Processor, a $160 Rube Goldberg contraption for slicing and pulverizing just about anything. No device, no matter how arcane or costly, sits around for long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Mr. Pots and Pans | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

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