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...Middle European principality of Liechtenstein, where he was the near-victim of an explosion in a salami-skin factory; learned in Sharja on the Arabian peninsula that the selling price of a slave girl is $270; gambled for low stakes with Cadillac-driving smugglers in Andorra, the tiny domain perched in the Pyrenees, between France and Spain. An ex-reporter for U.P. and a magazine writer, Sack employs a racily frenetic style, e.g., using "chugalug" as a verb meaning to drink and "crackajack" as an adjective meaning excellent, and is often as determinedly elfin as Tchico, the dog ghost...
First opposition speaker was M.D.C. Commissioner Charles W. Greenough '19, who described the legal background of the commission's control of the property. He concluded that he saw the bill as an attempt "to force a taking (by eminent domain) to be made," and "to create a value that doesn't exist." The land is assessed at only $100, though Sullivan says he paid much more...
...European copyrights expire 50 years after the death of all of the authors, including the librettists. In the U.S., where all of the works of Verdi and some of Puccini's are now in the public domain, copyrights are protected only 56 years after each work's first publication...
...which have recently pushed brisk Sunday circulation sorties into a jealously guarded newspaper preserve. To the custodian of the preserve-which also includes five radio stations and a television station-such poaching is intolerable. Valley residents seem to feel about the same way. In the 18,000-sq.-mi. domain, one of every two doorsteps is daily crossed by a Bee; in Sacramento so many people take the paper that a new carrier boy is handed a route list, not of subscribers, but of those few nonconformists who do not subscribe...
Lord of this happy domain is Bold Venture's producer, Cincinnati's Ziv Television Programs, Inc. (runners-up: CBS Films Inc., MCA-TV, Ltd.). Founded in 1937 as a radio syndication outfit by Cincinnati Adman Frederic W. Ziv, the company went into TV eleven years ago with a good backlog of Hollywood feature films. Even better were its first self-produced show, Yesterday's Newsreels, and its first adventure series, Cisco Kid. Others followed, including Men of Annapolis, West Point, Harbor Command, and this season's Dial 999 and Bat Masterson. Today Ziv employs...