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...Rembrandts. Hanging in honeycomb luminosity are 33 of the Dutch master's softest illusions, from his early white-ruffed burghers to intense portraits of his mistress Hendlrickje Stoeffels to his jeweled Old Testament parables and his bravura Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, the costliest work of art ($2,300,000) ever auctioned...
...shopping season," roared up the stairwell to gut the fourth and fifth floors. In some sections of the store untouched by flames, plastic hangers melted in the intense heat, dropping expensive clothing into dirty, swirling water. More than 150 firemen fought for five hours to control the fire, the costliest in Dallas history...
Putting down the line is the hardest and costliest part of pipelining; in rough terrain it can cost $150,000 a mile, always requires many pieces of special machinery to dig the ditches and successfully lay the pipe. But once in place, pipelines are impervious to weather and immune to strikes, operate day and night with rare breakdowns and only occasional pumping station overhauls. They eliminate the costly necessity of deadheading empty cars, barges or tankers, are so automated that only a handful of men can monitor a cross-country system. Pipelines are thus the cheapest transportation available for bulk...
Grey Eminence. Agriculture Minister Ivan Volovchenko-the sixth official to hold that thankless post since Khrushchev became boss of the party in 1953-last week outlined the costliest, most ambitious program to boost farm output that has ever been undertaken by a Soviet government. After decades of starveling treatment at the hands of leaders hell-bent on industrialization, Soviet agriculture is finally to get the machinery, fertilizer and technology that have revolutionized U.S. and Western European farming over the past 50 years. But for city dwellers, Volov-chenko's promised bounty came too late. After a winter of scarcities...
...Come On, Choo Choo!" Florida's six jai alai frontons tempt fans with drinks, dinners, dames-and enough pageantry to make Nero jealous. At the world's biggest (capacity: 6,000) and costliest ($4,500,000) fronton in suburban Miami, customers do not even have to leave their upholstered seats to get taken to the cleaners-pretty girls in green and gold uniforms prance up and down the aisles collecting bets...