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...figure commonly bandied about is $200 million. Actually, no one will know the real value of Hearst's estate until his executors have made an appraisal for purposes of federal inheritance taxes. To make it, they will first have to thread their way through his maze of personal holdings (ranches, mines, oil wells, real estate, art treasures) and interlocking corporations, discover how much has been encumbered by debt, how much previously sold...
...Bureau's most exasperating job is digesting Communist newspapers, "literature" and broadcasts, with their wearisome load of Marxian cliches. Even the fine print must be studied, for it often tells the story which the headlines are designed to hide. For instance, Neville read a maze of Marxian dialectic about the Reds' wonderful social security system ("second only to Soviet Russia's") before he found the catch: the scheme applied only to an insignificant number of workers and even for them it would be delayed...
Some professors of economics may share the lady's feelings, when they approach such Goodwin articles as "The Multiplier as Matrix," ("in which I generalize Keynes' 'General Theory'"), or "Secular and Cyclical Aspects of the Multiplier and Accelerator." In vain they look for things familiar in a maze of matrices, mechanisms, and differential equations. The uninitiated must turn skeptic, or search not scattered passages written, for backward readers, in English...
...proud mothers. Two of the animal actors disqualified themselves at once-one by shying at the klieg lights, the other by "freezing," and "refusing to take direction." Then the remaining candidates went into the big test. Chief items: to retrieve bananas from chandeliers, walk through a maze of ash trays, drinking glasses, tables and boxes, hop into a pool (most chimps dread water), kiss several actors and actresses (Jungle Jim scripts call for frequent bussing of Weissmuller). The winner was an ape without any theatrical experience-a female chimp named Peggy who had led a quiet life...
...maze of Paris traffic, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's limousine swerved, toppled a pedestrian, got smacked by a car behind. Alexei Pavlov, Russia's Ambassador to France, suggested a way to prevent similar accidents: let Soviet cars be escorted through the streets at 75 m.p.h., just like in Moscow...