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What Money Cannot Buy. Luce and Hadden got together again as reporters for the Baltimore News, but their stay did not last long. They began talking again about "the paper" and finally decided to act. Both 23, they took off for New York with some crude, typewritten dummy sheets for a newsmagazine. Setting up shop in an old remodeled house on East 17th Street, they began to write a prospectus. Luce later recalled that going home one night on the subway "my half-glazed stare fell on an advertisement with the headline, TIME TO RETIRE, Or TIME FOR A CHANGE...
...American colonists were barely ashore before they began casting about for ways to make their new homes attractive. In Puritan New England, crude portraits were being limned by anonymous painters as early as 1641; in Pennsylvania, settlers from the Palatinate were soon decorating birth certificates and family records with elaborate Fraktur flowers and birds, a practice derived from Gothic manuscripts...
Last week a settlement was reached, and Syria turned the valves to start the 950,000 bbl. a day of crude oil gurgling once again toward the coast. That night Premier Youssef Zayyen, 36, went on radio and TV to declare "a triumph of the struggling masses over Western monopolies." Following his speech, the audience again heard the lyrics of a song written especially for the crisis...
Until now, it has been almost impossible to prove that certain rough fragments were prototypes of more sophisticated, well-formed bone tools, Mrs. Kooros said. "This was a real problem," she said, "because men didn't suddenly start making perfectly-shaped tools. First there had to be some crude prototypes...
Even though some Libyan crude is waxy and tends to solidify at European winter temperatures, Europe is the major market. Although production costs are higher than those in the Middle East, low transportation charges more than offset the difference...