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...stamps bother the crusty Missouri artist? Not a bit, said Benton, who was paid around $5,000 for the painting. "I've always liked the idea of popularizing paintings." The next question is what popularized art lover is going to buy the $296,250 worth of merchandise and lick the 2,962,500 stamps he will need to purchase...
Instantly, the infield at Candlestick Park was jammed with milling, jostling players trying to separate the combatants-or get in a lick or two of their own. By the time everybody got back to the ball game, 15 minutes later, policemen were guarding the dressing rooms, and both Roseboro and Marichal had been escorted from the park...
...last year. Hachette, the powerful publishing house that owns both newspapers, was distressed over a loss of $800,000 in 1964 by Paris-Presse alone. Moreover, the Paris-Presse payroll was padded with all sorts of pleasant cousins and friends who never did a lick of work. At the news that a lot of these ardent Gaullists would come over to their paper, twelve top France-Soir staffers resigned in a huff...
...Ploy. At Hughes Aircraft Co. in California, however, three young engineers, Drs. Harold A. Rosen, Donald D. Williams and Thomas Hudspeth, were anxious to shoot for a higher target-nothing less than the 22,300-mile synchronous orbit conceived by Clarke back in 1945. They were sure they could lick its formidable problems, but they could not convince the Hughes management. "One day," says Hughes Vice President Lawrence A. Hyland, "Williams walked into my office and laid a cashier's check for $10,000-his entire savings-on my desk. 'Here's what I want to contribute...
...prostrated Barotses chanted praises to the jerky rhythm of wooden xylophones, and Kaunda promised the Litunga $4,480,000 in aid-primarily for flood control and agricultural development. That should ensure Zambia against Barotse unrest. And with all those dams going up, it might at the same time lick the longstanding crocodile problem...