Word: manors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office building) for a profit-a practice known as asset stripping-and used the money to finance his next acquisition. By 1968 the Slater, Walker pyramid had grown to 500 firms and Slater's personal fortune had risen to an estimated $10 million. He bought a lavish manor in Surrey and spent long weekends there indulging his passion for chess. In 1972 he provided $125,000 of his own cash as a prize for the world chess championship, luring a reluctant Bobby Fischer into his celebrated match with Boris Spassky...
...IDIOSYNCRATIC guests snowbound in a manor house outside of London with their nervous host and hostess, an unsolved murder mystery, the haunting refrain of a childish nursery rhyme--these are the ingredients Agatha Christie uses to bait The Mousetrap. A lot of people have been snatching up the bait; the show has broken box office records, running 23 years on the London stage...
...Mousetrap. A pleasant enough production of an Agatha Christie murder mystery about eight people snow-bound in a manor house. The play, which has been running continuously in London for 23 years or so, is hardly weighty intellectual fare. The Leverett House Arts Society production, however, boasts a fine cast, directed with a comic touch by Evangeline Morphos, who did Arms and the Man at the Loeb last spring. Performances in the Leverett House Old Library, November...
...Mousetrap. The Leverett House Arts Society's production of an Agatha Christie murder mystery about eight people snow-bound in a manor house. Check it out if you haven't caught it in London yet, where it's been running continuously for the last 23 years or so. Directed by Evangeline Morphos, who did Arms and the Man at the Loeb last year. Performances in the Leverett House Old Library Theater October 30 and 31, and November 1,2, 5-8, at 8 p.m. Special Halloween performance at midnight...
...centers, there are also five fully owned and hundreds of rented country retreats offering lectures, seminars and advanced meditation (up to 120 minutes a day, or three times the usual dosage). One such center that the movement owns is set amid 465 acres of unspoiled countryside at Livingston Manor in New York's Catskill Mountains. It has a 350-room hotel, a sophisticated printing plant for the masses of TM newsletters and other literature, and a videotape and sound-recording complex worthy of a TV network...