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Sakowitz, a Houston department store that tries to give pretentiousness a good name, amuses its millionaire patrons with tongue-in-checkbook "ultimate gifts" in its Christmas catalogue. Among this year's offerings: a professionally filmed documentary of your life for $50,000, a private island and lighthouse in the Pacific for $750,000, your wife's weight in loose 10-carat diamonds at $4 million per lb. and an offshore oil rig, capable of drilling in 300 ft. of water, for $28.7 million...
...report detailed how the committee's staff had compared Brooke's checkbook with other records and found that a number of entries had been obliterated or changed. One of them concerned an Oct. 4, 1972, bank deposit for $27,500 that was originally recorded in the checkbook as a loan from the Bank of Montreal. But when Brooke's lawyers submitted his checkbook to the Ethics Committee, the $27,500 was listed as a return of capital on an investment. Brooke and his lawyers claim that the alteration was made to correct a clerical error...
Quick! Before you read any further, put down this paper, pick up your checkbook or parents' Mastercharge, and run over to the nearest ticket agency to get tickets for the Grateful Dead, who will be appearing at the Music Hall on Nov. 13 and 14. The last time the Dead played Boston was at the Garden two years ago: a most disappointing show, due mainly to the cavernous nature of that ice rink/basketball court/circus arena which is periodically converted into a pitiful excuse for a theater. (A note to freshmen unacquainted with the Boston music scene: avoid the Garden...
...Checkbook administration, however, has torn apart the subsistence economy of the territory and contributed to an environment of distorted development and social despair. Indeed, most of the same problems afflict the South Pacific islands held by the U.S. independent of any U.N. sanction. These include...
...household operations, however, microcomputers are clearly inferior to simpler and less expensive devices. Like fingers. Michael Mastrangelo finds it easier to make his own tea than program a computer for the task. Says David Korman, who has an IMSAI 8080 in his Belmont, Mass., apartment: "I tried doing my checkbook on it. It's a lot faster by hand." And even though prices have dropped, microcomputers remain complicated devices that require long hours of study to use properly. When Robert Phillips let his sister give a party in his computerized Chicago apartment, he dutifully left a long list...