Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Early sales figures suggested that the String could become one of the most important Brazilian inventions since coffee. Bloomingdale's in Manhattan sold out its first order of 150 suits in two weeks. Ralph Paterno, owner of a Madison Avenue boutique who has his Strings made at his factory in Italy, sold 160 in two days. "I've had calls from all over for them from men-boy friends and husbands," he says. His suits cost from $35 to $40-v. $6 in Rio-and come in a variety of materials, including cotton and jersey, which Paterno favors...
...role of calculators emerged as mathematically minded users found that the versatile devices could be used to play sleight-of-button games and spell words. Because on most calculators, the glowing digits of the readout screen, when inverted, look more or less like letters of the alphabet,* the calculator owner can use the machine to compose more than 100 words and endless riddles. For example, to get the calculator to devise words suggestive of the energy crisis: put 42.46407 into the machine, divide by 3 and multiply by 5. Upside down the machine spells ShELL OIL (the floating decimal separates...
...villain in Mrs. Ware's case is a tax law enacted by the Illinois legislature two decades ago. Drafted with the help of real estate operators, the measure authorizes local governments to auction off a two-month-overdue property-tax bill-if the owner does not respond to a warning notice within three weeks. The buyer of the overdue bill can take full title to the property two years later-again, after giving notice -if the owner has paid no part of the taxes or the interest. Ostensibly, the law is meant to provide an incentive for private enforcement...
...plus interest and penalties. Gray was not interested. The case has been up to both the Illinois and U.S. Supreme Courts, but almost every judge has seemed satisfied that a speculator can indeed get a $25,000 home for $41.57 in unpaid taxes, evict the owner and sell it for all he can. In Illinois, that is-as they say in the movies-perfectly legal...
...Marinotti's paintings. They were included in a Rothko retrospective that toured Europe, finishing on May 8 at the Musee d'Art Moderne in Paris. But when the show closed, the Rothkos were shipped back to Marlborough in New York, rather than to their alleged owner Marinotti in Europe...