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...capitalist society, even love has price. One night caution the citizens of Indianapolis nor to grow too attached to their Colts, as the Irsays of the world are a fickle breed, and a booming city like Phoenix or San Jose will always be beckoning with an eager checkbook. Of course, Indianapolisites will learn soon enough what price love demands: the average tab for a day at the Hoosier Dome this fall will be about $25. It the newest Colts lovers don't have that kind of money, they can always sell a pint of blood...
Thefts: Two wallets containing a checkbook, cash and I.D.'s valued at $50 were reported taken during dinnertime Wednesday from the cost room of the Harvard Union, police said...
When British Talk Show Host David Frost recorded five interview programs with former President Richard Nixon in 1977, CBS News refused to bid for the broadcast rights, preferring to avoid disputes over "checkbook journalism." Last week, however, CBS News acknowledged that it has bought, for a reported $500,000, the rights to 38 hours of taped conversation between Nixon and a former White House aide, Frank Gannon, who helped Nixon write his memoirs. The footage will be edited into three 30-minute segments that will air next month, two on 60 Minutes and one on a forthcoming magazine show, American...
...just easier to balance my own checkbook. Home computers have been a wonderful solution looking for a problem." Morgan concluded that the industry was heedlessly unloading upon an unsuspecting public technology that served no purpose, almost as if it were indulging in consumer deception. Says Morgan, who is determined to make home machines more useful: "Seventy-five percent of these sets are being bought for home entertainment or by parents who are made to feel guilty about not further enhancing their children's computer skills...
Bryher's checkbook makes fascinating reading. She kept H.D. in style and paid for much of her daughter's upbringing and education. James Joyce, the Sitwells and Dylan Thomas were recipients of Bryher's beneficence. Ellerman money also enabled her husband, American Writer Robert McAlmon, to publish the early works of Gertrude Stein, Pound, Hemingway and their fellow expatriates...