Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Little by little, he added to his holdings. If he saw a plantation he admired, for example, Somoza García made its owner an offer he dared not refuse, usually about half the property's real value. Often as not, the owner presented the land as a gift. By the time of his assassination in 1956, Somoza García was worth about $150 million...
Director Yates, whose best previous work has been in action films like Bullitt, here demonstrates a very nice light touch, as well as a gift for getting full documentary value out of his lo cation. There are a few moments when the picture's easygoing pace turns into wobbliness, but these are insignificant compared with its many moments of shrewd insight into the lives of amusingly shaded but very recognizable human beings. This is the kind of small, star less film that big studios sometimes do not know what to do with. Audiences should have no such difficulty. They...
...have bequeathed the solar system to our children, not our great-grandchildren, and they will be duly thankful. At the very least, this gift will enable them to look back on such transient crises as energy and material shortages with amused incredulity...
...funds. Boston's performing groups, like the nation's, continue to proliferate at a time when public and foundation grants are drying up. In Massachusetts last year, close to 350 recipients got a share of the state art council's $2.5 million budget, with the highest gift, a mere $45,000, going to the B.S.O. This year there are 264 requests for money from the same fund, but Governor Edward King, a Proposition 13 adherent, wants to trim the council's already inadequate budget by 15%. The private sector is unlikely to fill the gap. Whereas...
...Elizabeth Taylor's fifth husband wowed her with the gift of a rare and incredible gem: a $1.2 million, 69.42-carat diamond. Now that Richard Burton has gone his way and Taylor is married to John Warner, the apricot-size gem has, for Burton at least, become love's labor's cost. Taylor, taking advantage of changing markets as well as men, quietly sold the stone for nearly $3 million to New York City Jeweler Henry Lambert. Two bidders, neither of them American, are dealing with Lambert for the clear white, 58-facet stone. Both want...