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...single activity-boxing in California, barbering in Oregon-to broad bans on industry and commerce. Several states, including Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Texas, Vermont and Virginia, have toughened their Sunday statutes within the past few years, and only last week the Supreme Court refused to hear an Ohio merchant's case challenging that state's blue laws...
...upholding blue laws, the Supreme Court conceded that they do inflict hardship upon the Orthodox Jewish storekeeper, prohibited by his religion from doing business on Saturday. In an effort to relieve that special hardship, New York City has just passed a new ordinance permitting a merchant to sell "any property" on Sunday if he "keep another day of the week as holy time.' But many a New York City storekeepe has long stayed open on both Saturda] and Sunday, anyway, reluctantly pay ing an occasional $5 fine when a police man checks on his trespasses...
...resemble. Keats's life was a series of buffetings by a fate cruel enough to suit the most sentimental of Victorian preconceptions. He lost his father at eight, his mother at 14, his brother Tom at 23, and died himself of tuberculosis at 25. His appointed guardian, Tea Merchant George Abbey, hated him. Abbey apprenticed him to a doctor, tried to keep him from seeing his younger sister Fanny, and cheated the orphaned Keats children of most of the money they had been left by their innkeeper father...
...look like ordinary U.S. bank checks-but the resemblance ends there. In Italy's consumer boom, the buyer of a refrigerator or bedroom set signs a promissory note for each monthly installment. He thus may sign as many as 48 cambiali for one TV set or refrigerator. The merchant who sells him the goods uses the cambiali to pay his own bills, just as if they were currency, and his supplier or landlord in turn uses them to pay off his debts. The notes may pass through 20 or more hands before they finally roost in a bank...
...bearing Mr. Barnard's inconsequential slip, which made a philatelic byword out of the phrase "Post Office Mauritius." The one-and twopenny samples that were up for auction last week by the London firm of Robson Lowe, Ltd. had left Mauritius on a letter to a wine merchant in Bordeaux (it took 85 days to get there). As well as being rare, they were in excellent condition. So when the bidding reached ?27,500, Raymond H. Weill, a New Orleans dealer, made his only bid-?28,000. It was the highest price ever offered for a philatelic item...