Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there. "I am also the greatest boxer and the greatest miler and the greatest weight lifter and the greatest shotputter and the greatest bowler and the greatest cook and the greatest lover," he says. It took his fellow pros a while to realize that they could vote for one item on Wilt's list without buying all of them. Last week they elected him the N.B.A.'s most valuable player...
...Corp. of America, which holds the licensing rights to the TV-comic-strip hero (as well as to 007). Since Batman went on TV in January, LCA has signed up 53 major companies for Batman products, and 45 other contracts are being negotiated. The licensees make every kind of item to which a Batman insignia can be stuck, sewn or stapled. Colgate-Palmolive is marketing Batbath bubble soap. Hallmark is bringing out Batman greeting cards. Toy companies, including Mattel, Ideal, Louis Marx and Remco, are turning out Batman toys. There are Batmasks, Batcapes, Batkites, Batbuttons, Batpuppets and Batguns as well...
Dividing Baby? Like King Solomon's legendary decision ordering the baby divided between the contending women, this would be no solution at all. The French faction would not think of accepting it without being guaranteed equal facilities-an item estimated to cost a minimum of $500 million. Even if this were miraculously arranged, the massive international prestige of Louvain would be maimed. Though both the Flemish-and French-speaking faculties of the university are equally eminent, most of the 2,000 foreign students (out of a total enrollment of 20,000) speak French rather than Flemish...
...Administration would have to budget some $190 million to cover NDEA loans in fiscal 1967. If the new system is adopted this item will not appear on the budget, since the government would be insuring the loans, not handling the money directly...
...Brien then dealt in passing with the crisis provoked by Moscow's unwillingness to pay for U.N. operations in the Congo. He recalled that "the bill sent to the Soviet Union included the little item: 'eight million francs for eviction of Soviet embassy.' Frankly, I can understand why they wouldn...