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...short-range bull's-eye with a suction-cupped arrow in an attempt to promote the sale of his brain child, a savings bond that pays no interest, but offers investors a chance to win ?1,000-a financial stratagem known to Britons as "having a flutter on Harold." Nobody's archery was good enough to win the prize-one ?1 bond. Southpaw Archer Macmillan, perhaps with sporting intent, missed the target by a gentlemanly margin...
Setting his Homburg square on his head, a heavy-set Bostonian named William Elaine Richardson departed one day last week for his office, the main Mexico City branch of the First National City Bank of New York. As usual, there was a brisk flutter of papers and a businesslike reaching for telephones when he arrived; Richardson maintains the no-nonsense tra dition of banking, runs his office with taut efficiency. But on that day last week there was more than routine importance to his arrival. It was his last; at 65, the banker who opened First National City...
...museum directors and curators. The whole lavish display points up a new trend in the market place of modern art: since the contemporary field is too big to be financed by a handful of rich art connoisseurs and few critical taste-setters are influential enough even to flutter a price tag, the task of spotting promising newcomers and springboarding them to national prominence is increasingly falling to the nation's museum directors...
...nation whose favorite weekly pastime is "having a flutter" by risking sixpence in football pools on the chance of winning $280,000, the proposal was hailed with glee. "Honest Harold always pays," headlined the Laborite Daily Mirror. "Give him your quid and you might win ?1,000. Gambling? Oh dear...
...continuous pace of his own windmill style, went so far as to work its advantages into a Ph.D. thesis. Counsilman found that Subject Breen's kick was relatively weak, but instead of beefing up Breen's legs, Counsilman taught him to slow them down and barely flutter them during part of the stroke. "If he kicked more," explains Counsilman, "it would act as a drag. It would be something like an automobile whose front wheels are going 30 miles an hour and the back wheels only...