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Bidding starts high and goes higher -roughly double last year's prices. Explanations vary. "We're totally greed motivated," jokes a restaurant owner from Seattle. "The only reason I'm paying $40,000 for a paneled room is because it wil help raise my take from $1 million to $2 million." Says Bob Snow, owner of the Rosie O'Grady entertainment-cum-preservation complexes in Orlando and Pensacola: "At the first auction I paid $4,500 for a real historic bar from Chicago. This year ordinary bars are bringing $45,000. 1 don't know...
...from Byrd's more-than-two-hour talk with Gromyko. This session began on an amiable note, with the Foreign Minister observing that his pile of briefing notes was thinner than Byrd's thick folder. "That's just my notebook," replied the majority leader. "I'm going to write down what you tell...
Rich told the audience, "I'm here because as a white feminist and a woman-identified woman, I perceive these events in Boston as evidence of the depth of woman-hating." Although she believes if the murdered women had been attached to powerful white men their stories would have "covered the front page of the New York Times," Rich urged the audience that "there is no selective privilege for women...
...Vegas oddsmaker made his own odds for the fall. "I'm giving 50-to-1 that it will land in Massachusetts. And New York and California are both set at 35-to-1," Jackie Gaughan of the EI Cortez Hotel said yesterday. "One man bet $500 on Wisconsin at 40-to-1. I'm predicting that on July 11 at 11 a.m. EDT, it will hit the Pacific Ocean...
...Bond is quickly summoned to the headquarters of the ever-British spy chief, M, after 007 neatly wraps up his former mission (narrowly averting a nasty fall out of an airplane in an opening scene no less impressive than Connery's skiing in On Her Majesty's Secret Service). M dispatches him forthwith after the missing shuttle...