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...knock it off for the day. This in turn sent everybody and his mother out into the yards for miles around with everything from compressors to power mowers, looking for further hush money. This week 175 members of the Lake Club of New Canaan are scheduled to share the loot as extras. It's not that they need the $5 a day; it's the glimpse of glory. Cheever himself was offered the part of the floating souse, but he turned it down. "If I'm only going to be in one movie in my life...
...themselves, pick up extra pocket money by siphoning gasoline from their tanks and selling it. Soldiers set up roadblocks to exact a few rupiahs from every passing vehicle. Schools are supposedly free, but teachers expect donations of money or rice from their students. At ports, longshoremen and police openly loot incoming cargoes; one favorite ploy is to remove the vital parts of imported machinery and sell them back to their desperate owners shortly after delivery...
...contributed to the empire's balance of payments. This time, for rather the same reason, Her Majesty named fab Fashion Designer Mary Quant, 32, doyenne of the Chelsea group's knee-baring, hippy styles, as an officer of the O.B.E. Her fad is siphoning so much loot into Albion that the Queen ranked Mary one full notch up on the Beatles...
Washington's generosity on the one hand and its many strictures on the other have driven some states to near schizophrenia: holding one hand outstretched to collect the federal loot and the other clenched to punch the federal snoot. The fact is that the Federal Government needs to do many things that the states cannot-or will not-do by themselves and that the states and localities badly need the money that comes from Washington. Since 1946, state and local spending has soared sixfold, to nearly $100 billion a year-twice what Washington spends on domestic affairs...
Bigger Game. For a scholar and administrator, Rorimer revealed an unexpected flair for showmanship and a love for cloak-&-dagger art sleuthing. During World War II, he was decorated for ferreting out the caches where the Nazis had hidden their art loot, proudly boasted that he was the first Allied offi cer to enter the Louvre upon the liberation of Paris. As director of the Met, he relished prowling galleries for finds, made auction history when he bought Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer for a record $2,300,000 with a wink. Last March he went...