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...world. This year Newspaper Collector Thomson branched out into magazine buying, was just about to close a deal for a big British periodical publishing house, Odhams Press Ltd. (200 magazines, newspapers, trade and technical journals and annual directories), when Press Lord Cecil Harmsworth King beat him to the checkbook (TIME, Feb. 24). Annoyed but undaunted, Thomson sat on his millions, waiting for another chance. Last week it came. For a mere $3,920,000, Roy Thomson bought six British magazines that King might well have wanted for himself...
...purple. His family, down through the generations, counts five Congressmen and one Rhode Island lieutenant governor. Young Pell himself had put in a tour in the U.S. Foreign Service (Czechoslovakia, Italy) and dabbled in state politics, mostly as a fund raiser. But in this campaign it was his fat checkbook, his patrician manners and his softly spoken determination to get to Washington that counted most. Billboards and statewide TV wrote his name large across the summer. He traveled tirelessly, talking to Rhode Island's immigrant minorities in French, Italian or Portuguese. He promised relief for Rhode Island...
...They took their suspicions to Ohio Congressman Wayne Hays, who had spoken out against the secrecy surrounding the C-130 flight. A cursory glance at some plastic-covered identification cards convinced Hays that the men worked for the CIA. He wrote their names down on the back of his checkbook and discussed their information informally, he says, with another member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Then the matter was dropped. The simple and shocking breach of security by supposed members of the CIA was brought to no one's attention...
...speaks with assurance of such technical topics as balance of payments, rediscount rates or expansion of commercial paper. As one Washington banker puts it, "It's just like talking to another banker." One of Che's irritations comes from Prime Minister Castro, who carries a checkbook in his shirt pocket. When a project seems worthy, Castro tugs out the book and writes a check. His account is now overdrawn...
...front door, buys more Girl Scout cookies and raffle tickets than she thinks she should, cringes from the suburban locust-the door-to-door salesman who peddles everything from storm windows to potato chips, fire-alarm systems to vacuum cleaners, diaper sendee to magazine subscriptions. She keeps the checkbook, frets for the day that her husband's next raise will top the flood of monthly bills (it never will)-a tide that never seems to rise as high in the city as it does in the suburbs...