Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crown of glittering and priceless jewels," was Arthur Houghton Jr.'s metaphor. The president of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art was describing a gift that is soon to become part of the Met's permanent exhibits: the art collection of the late Robert Lehman, the investment banker who died in August. It was quite a birthday gift for the museum's 100th anniversary. The value of the greatest bequest in the Metropolitan's history has been estimated to be $100 million, but it is probably much higher; many of the nearly...
...They get up to 40 times as much for a kilo of the prized "Acapulco Gold" as they do for a kilo of corn. In Guerrero state, eager peasants using fertilizer and irrigation can harvest four crops a year. In Tijuana, enterprising merchants package marijuana in 1.8-kilo bricks -gift-wrapped at Christmas time-that cost $35 and contain enough for at least 2,000 cigarettes, or "joints." In the U.S., the same amount will bring anywhere from $400 to $1,900 for the topmost grade...
...things of God, but in the final analysis his kingdom is of this world." The judgment is thoughtful, and O'Connell, an Australian professor of international law, endorses it. He sees Richelieu as a remarkable pragmatist who "combined in a completely unique fashion an iron resolution and a gift for seeing both sides of a question...
...title that carries a certain noblesse oblige. So Charles has asked that half his ducal revenues be turned over to the government. "He felt he wanted to make a gesture of this sort," said a palace spokesman. But the troubled Exchequer will get no great boost from the gift, which comes on Nov. 14, Charles' 21st birthday. While Charles was a minor, most of the ducal income was used to help pay Queen Elizabeth's annual salary of $1,140,000. Now the treasury must make up the difference...
...company's jet. How about a lift? asked the Bristol-Myers man. Thanks, said the mayor and he climbed aboard. Then the city's Democratic politicians heard about the ride. They remembered that Section 1106 of the City Charter forbids city employees to accept "any valuable gift" in the form of a "service, loan, thing or promise" from anyone doing business with the city. And they were quick to point out that Bristol-Myers had sold New York $859,000 worth of drugs last year. Before long there were editorials in the papers and demands for a Board...