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...cheered, jeered, envied and snubbed. This unusual woman viewed the streets of Cambridge and Boston as canals leading to her inside-out, quasi-Venetian palace just across from the Museum of Fine Arts, on the Fens of Boston. With a mere handkerchief she outbid Europe for a Vermeer, and with her husband's shipping fortune she bought a great collection of Italian paintings...
Scammon and Wattenberg also challenge the assumption by some Republicans that a full-blown Southern strategy could succeed. Nixon received less than one-fifth of his 1968 electoral votes from the South: "Just let the voters feel that their President is trying to outbid George Wallace in the South and watch those slim, non-Southern pluralities melt all over the nation . . . The last Republican presidential aspirant who waged a Southern strategy reveals how successful that approach is. Barry...
...foreign markets, but nearly always as exporters. Now they are increasingly taking a new role -as owners of foreign factories. In the past two weeks, executives of Farbwerke Hoechst, a huge chemical manufacturer, have played the part with particular bravura in Britain and France. Climaxing a long contest, they outbid the U.S.'s Sherwin-Williams Co. to win a controlling interest in Berger, Jenson & Nicholson Ltd., a major British paint producer. In France, Hoechst executives encouraged a merger of two concerns, Roussel-Uclaf and Centrale de Dynamite, which together sell about $200 million worth of Pharmaceuticals a year...
...Kemper Insurance Group outbid nine other companies for the policy to cover Indianapolis' 123 schools against fire, vandalism and other risks. The school board paid its $126,000 annual premium and had only one major claim-$101,000 for windstorm damage. Last week the board was searching for new coverage. Kemper announced that after the Indianapolis policy expires on March 1 it will not be renewed...
...Wayne's. The Duke offered to buy the screen rights for $300,000. "I knew right away that Rooster Cogburn was a character that fit my pistol," he said. "He even felt the same way about life. He did not believe in pampering wrongdoers." Eventually, Producer Hal Wallis outbid Wayne-but Wallis provided an appropriately happy ending by hiring the superstar to play the role...