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...like collectors who buy as if they're acquiring a postage-stamp series or a packet of shares on the stock market. I don't understand a collector who buys 25 Picassos or 50 Klees. Is it love of art, or interest in speculation and social standing...
...buys, from cigarettes and wine to cars and television sets. Lloyd estimated that the higher prices would give Britons some $588 million less pocket money to spend, presumably cut down on imports, currently running way ahead of exports. In a nation where the average weekly wage is $45, a packet of cigarettes will now cost...
...conventional 4x5 cameras that use a special Polaroid attachment, the company has developed a film packet that produces both finished picture (see cut) and negative in 15 seconds. Next month Polaroid will announce a new film for its Land cameras, which will produce black and white slides in only ten seconds. Under development is a one-step color film that shows promise of being the company's next big success...
Under such conditions, Sellers decides, it should not be too difficult to lark out, pick up the packet, and nip back with a perfect alibi before the warden knows he is gone. But just before he can put his plan into effect, the friendly old turnkey is replaced by Sergeant Sidney ("Sour") Crout, who is notoriously "the most wickid screw what ever crep' down a prison corridor." Best scene occurs in a prison quarry, where an "accidental" blast blows Sergeant Crout to comical tatters and leaves him staring at the audience with an expression like...
...Marina claims quick distribution, parachuting weekly copies from planes which must not only evade U.S. patrols but the Cuban air force too. Diario, reputedly the oldest Spanish-language paper in the hemisphere, is dropped into Cuba two days after publication in a 12-in. by 6-in. packet, tightly folded so as to resist the wind. About 5.000 copies of the two-color, 20-24 page tabloid are sold in Miami; 2,500 go to Cuba by parachute and other means as the gift of Editor José Ignacio Rivero and the twelve-man staff who fled for their lives...