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...Prime Mover...
...Commission on World Hunger [Oct. 16]? Bunk! It was Singer-Songwriter Harry Chapin, who is also a member of this commission, who lobbied religiously for more than two years until the reticent Congress and White House finally agreed to its legal creation. If anyone is a prime mover in this effort...
...centuries. Other popular sellers: $750 copies of a pair of andirons designed for Rockefeller by the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti in 1939; a $1,250 gold-plated bronze reproduction of a voluptuous female torso from a bronze cast sculpture by Gaston Lachaise. A slow mover is the $7,500 copy of the Rodin nude. Rockefeller, who has been collecting since the 1930s, invested $3.5 million in the project and admits he will close it down if it is not turning a profit. Says he: "I couldn't do it as a philanthropy...
...cache of scholarship on political leaders--presidents, tyrants, revolutionaries--and followers--the rabble, the masses, the voting public. Historians endlessly debate the role of the great man, the masses and of fate in the unfolding of history. And usually the advocate defends one of these forces as the prime mover in history, or throws up his hands, frustrated by the epic proportions of the conflict...
...prime mover was Resorts International, which set off the gambling stock boom by opening the first (and so far only) casino in Atlantic City, N.J., in May. This time, the Florida-based firm's big news was that its boardwalk betting palace had grossed $60 million in its first three months, about triple the revenues of the largest Las Vegas casinos...