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...years the Russians have lent the Chinese the somewhat unimpressive sum of $430 million, in deals signed only after months of hard bargaining. Currently the Chinese are shipping the Russians $250 million worth of goods a year more than they receive. Still, when the Chinese proclaim loudest of all that Communist strength now exceeds Western strength, the strength they are bragging about is primarily Russia's-Sputniks and missiles...
Graves was undeterred by the fact that the painting belonged to Collector Manfred Selig, a dry-goods merchant who has made a specialty of collecting Northwestern artists since he emigrated to the U.S. from Germany in 1940. The alleged Graves was a recent acquisition (price: $200), had been lent to the gallery as part of a show of his collection. Before stalking out of the gallery and heading back to Ireland (where he now lives), Graves scribbled a note to Selig: "I'm outraged that these fake 'Graves' paintings are getting into good collections such as yours...
...sweeping as those of the 1461 synod, which was directed at the tightening up of the laxities of Renaissance Rome, and established the Easter duties of confession and Communion, set up temporal penalties for blasphemy, forbade gambling, fortunetelling, sorcery, secret marriage, marriage with blood relatives, marriage in Lent and Advent, ordered parents to keep infants under one year in cribs and ordered priests to eschew fancy hairdos. For the most part the new constitutions restate and re-emphasize existing provisions of canon law, apply old disciplines to new situations. Items...
...Fabulous Fifties (CBS, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). A backward look that takes in a talented team of entertainers who lent the decade distinction. Guests include Jackie Gleason, Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Shelley Berman, Nichols and May, Photographer Richard Avedon, and the playwriting duo of Betty Comden and Adolph Green...
Among them, the 297 accounted for almost a tenth of the $1,185,000,000 in cotton loans for that year. Three of the farmers, said Williams, received more than the Government lent to all growers of all crops in the four important farm states of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania combined. They...