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...where do you go for a drink at Harvard? The smartest, cheapest place is a liquor store. Buy a bottle of booze, a bottle or two of mixers, and get started. The Harvard Provision Company has a good reputation, and they will deliver to Harvard dorms. Martignetti's (in Allston on Storrow Drive) is further away, but can be reached quickly by car. It will accept a check (with ID), and is one of the cheapest liquor stores around. This over-grown package store is a mammoth, bargain basement-type place, complete with shopping carts...

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: A Drinking Man's Guide to Cambridge | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

Putnam and President Bok decided last fall to keep the portfolio management separate from the Treasurer's Office, and felt that an independent management company set up by the Corporation was the cheapest way to handle the endowment...

Author: By H. JEFFREY Leonard, | Title: Cabot's First Two Edicts | 4/13/1974 | See Source »

...expert estimates that a good coin collection has appreciated in value by 75% annually for the last few years. Last summer Cleveland Coin Dealer Alan Yale, an ex-stockbroker, bought Mexican gold 50-peso pieces for $173 each; today they are selling for $241 each. Even collectors of the cheapest U.S. coin may soon be able to turn a profit. If the price of copper reaches $1.51 per Ib. (it is now more than $1.43), the metal in pennies will be worth more than the coins themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Some Winners from Inflation | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

...prohibits ragged jeans, bare midriffs and motorcycle jackets. Says Thomas Brown, manager of the Alexandria Roller Skating Rink in Alexandria, Va.: "With all these lousy X-rated movies you can't let the kids go to, it's no wonder business is so good. Skating is the cheapest, cleanest form of recreation around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Eight-Wheel Drive | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

...wallet burning in my pants pocket. An assortment of hamburgers and grilled meats stared back at me with their 20- and 25-peso prices. That's only about a dollar, but in Bolivia one needn't ever pay over 15 pesos for a full-course meal. I chose the cheapest item on the list, a perro caliente (Spanish for "hot dog"), which went for seven pesos. Up in the Indian Quarter seven pesos would have bought me soup, a piece of chicken, rice, and chuna, a type of dried potato. In a few minutes the waitress, dressed in a tight...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Bolivia | 2/22/1974 | See Source »

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