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...taxing the shirt off his American colonies. A colonial very nearly got the threads back. Industrialist Jack Stallworth of Mobile, Ala., had a friend bid $500 for the wine-red number and three other 18th century outfits, only to have Lady Cecilia Howard, owner of Castle Howard in Yorkshire, outbid him by $18 for the King's old clothes...
...defunct Herald Tribune be put on the New York market for competitive bidding. Which means that Mrs. Schiff will have the opportunity to try for Lippmann, Alsop, Buchwald, Evans and Novak. Which columnists she wants, she has not said. "I don't know how the hell she can outbid us unless we get a little complacent," says Conniff...
Biggest of the builders is Milan's Impregilo, which is a permanent com bine of three firms. It is responsible for four African dams, another in Iran, and one under way on the Euphrates River in Turkey. Along with these projects, worth $300 million altogether, Impregilo recently outbid an Anglo-German consortium for a $250 million hydroelectric project on Peru's Mantaro River. Tackling smaller-paying jobs as well, Impregilo is helping move the temples of Abu Simbel before the area is fully flooded...
...keep up, some savings banks will lift their rates on ordinary savings accounts from 4½% to 4¾% next month. Many savings and loan associates have already boosted theirs to 5%, but it is the fist time in 30 years that the associations have found themselves unable to outbid all competitors for savings...
...weeks ago at 77, was a pioneer in U.S. social and intellectual history, taught at Harvard for 30 years -seven of them while "Junior" was also on the faculty. Young Arthur was born in Columbus in 1917, while his father was teaching at Ohio State. In 1924, Harvard outbid...