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...commodity market that is in better shape than ever is the esoteric and specialized worldwide market in postage stamps. In Manhattan last week, the costliest stamp in history was auctioned for $41,000 by Bernard Harmer, U.S. partner of London's H. R. Harmer Ltd., the world's leading stamp firm. It is a pale blue, unused 2? Hawaiian Missionary stamp-so called because such stamps were mostly used by Christian missionaries writing home in the mid-19th century-and it replaced the renowned British Guiana one-cent magenta ($32,900) as the world's most valuable...
...Italian opera box office offers something of a demurrer. The biggest crowds today come to see the costliest productions; about the only singers in the country who can fill a theater by their names alone any more are Maria Callas and Giuseppe di Stefano. And Di Stefano feels the wind blowing against him. "If music cannot get people into the theater any more," says he, "it's time for us to pack up. If the public goes to La Scala to see how many bananas are hanging on a wall on the stage and not to hear the singers...
Stilled for 114 days, New York's presses were rolling again this week after the longest and costliest (see box) newspaper strike in the city's history. The striking photoengravers, last of the holdouts, met Sunday morning to reverse their earlier rejection of a new contract, and the eight blacked-out newspapers were on the streets by the very next...
More spare fuel tanks were installed in the rear compartment, where the remaining 32 passengers sat. At peak capacity, a TU-114 can carry 220 passengers, although normal seating is 170. But on the Moscow-Havana run, the figure is about 50. which must make it the costliest per capita flight in the world...
Like ambitious moonlighters holding down two tough jobs, the Chinese of Formosa are trying to build up their precarious economy while maintaining one of the world's costliest military machines-600,000 armed men in a population of 11 million. To the surprise of Asia, the relief of the U.S., and the embarrassment of Red China, Formosa's economic effort is succeeding. So much so, in fact, that this week Howard Parsons, the new director on Formosa for the U.S. Agency for International Development, told the Taipei press: "Within a few years, Taiwan will be in a position...