Word: parceled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Black Cross. Skripov then sent her a letter written in invisible ink and signed "Theresa." With chemical capsules furnished by Skripov, Miss X brought the writing out, learned that she was to pick up a parcel concealed under a tombstone in a cemetery, "the third from the one with a black cross with the letters...
...Immortals of the sedate Académie Française recently received an intriguing parcel from an unknown donor. In the mail came the most literary pornographic novel since the Marquis de Sade. Called L'Histoire d'O, it once moved Catholic Paul Claudel to remark, "All priests should read it so they may have an exact sense of sin." The parcel was intended to prejudice academicians against electing the man who had written the book's preface. Jean Paulhan, 78, and who is widely suspected of having written the novel himself under a pseudonym. A grand...
Coffman further stated that he had made the offer of a parcel of land in a letter to L. Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president of the University, but had not received an answer. Wiggins, who was unavailable for coment last night, aparently still hopes that the University's bid on the property will be accepted. Asked earlier if the University would consider raising its offer, Wiggins indicated that it would not and emphasized that the MTA was under no obligation to accept the highest...
...biggest buying and selling yet. Breaking off the biggest single chunk of his $60 million Southern empire, Milner swapped his thriving household-products business (Perma Starch, Mystic Foam Cleaner, Pine-Sol) with American Cyanamid for $11 million in Cyanamid stock. At the same time, he sold off a parcel of Southern hotels and motels for $10 million in cash...
Vellucci explained that Harvard was anxious "to help solve a problem that they are creating themselves in Harvard Sq.," and suggested swapping the land now owned by the University for a parcel from the Bennett St. M.I.T. yards...