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...appetite-and pocketbook-had grown large. He cast an envious eye on a big bunch of Russells, then housed cozily in a fine old Great Falls, Mont., saloon called The Mint. The people of Montana belatedly tried to raise the money to outbid Carter and keep the artist's work in the state he adopted, but Carter won. He hung his acquisitions in his club, at the newspaper, in the Fort Worth library, the airport terminal. His will stipulated that they should eventually have their own museum...
Next on the list was Frankie Sinatra's Hollywood-style Gala at the cavernous National Armory. Happily for the Democratic Party coffers, the tickets had been sold long before the snowstorm-and just as Sinatra had predicted, the show made a mint: nearly $1,400,000 (single seats, $100; boxes, $10,000). Unhappily for the showfolk, however, only two-thirds of the ticket-holders (some 6,000 people) turned up, and what with the traffic delays, the extravaganza got under way nearly two hours late. The biggest stars, of course, were the Kennedys themselves, and they had a fine...
...cool as a mint julep in a Georgia July, prospective Secretary of State Dean Rusk stepped up for his fitness hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week and passed, as everyone expected, with high honors. Before the fact, though, there had been some promise of drama. Across the committee table. Rusk had to face Chairman William Fulbright-a man who could have had Rusk's job had he not been an Arkansas segregationist-and a squad of Republicans intent on making sure that the next State Secretary is not "soft" on Communism...
...monks now turn out 27 flavors (e.g., pineapple-mint, rhubarb-orange, damson plum) in a factory on their 2,300-acre property, work in shifts from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. over the steaming vats. The jellies are distributed in all 50 states and in Canada by Heublein, Inc. (packaged cocktails). They sell for slightly more than similar jellies. "We have a fair markup," says Father John Holohan, St. Joseph's subprior (who has permission to talk because he must confer with "the outside world"). "We have never wanted to take advantage of our free labor...
...silver they can. They are not worried by London fears that the U.S. will run out of silver in the next few years. The U.S. still has 122 million oz. in its free silver vaults-over and above its vast monetary reserves. Although the mint dips into the free silver stocks for some 40 million oz. for new coins each year, the Treasury can always stop selling silver if its stocks drop dangerously low. The Treasury argues that special circumstances have recently affected both supply and demand. Mining strikes have cut production, and demand has been temporarily increased by such...