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...roamed art museums by day ("I feel a rapport with Jackson Pollock," he says). Last year he got by on $500. Living in one room cluttered with stacks of tape and three tape recorders, he worked on a book explaining his music and practiced on the violin-a $15 pawnshop bargain -"until somebody started knocking on the walls...
...important debut in Carnegie Hall went unnoticed because it occurred during the 1962-63 newspaper strike. Then last April he won the prestigious Leventritt Competition, but in all the excitement the $15,000 Guarnerius violin he had borrowed from Juilliard was stolen. The instrument was recovered later in a pawnshop, but news of the event completely overshadowed his stunning victory. Barring other such misfortunes, the U.S. and the world will be hearing a lot more about Itzhak Perlman in the very near future...
...Corporate Ascetic. Despite its prosperity, B.H.P. has chosen for itself the role of corporate ascetic. Says one former executive, ruefully recalling his $18-a-week expense allowance: "The place is run like a pawnshop." The sprawling B.H.P. shop is presently managed by a triumvirate that prefers fishing to nightclubbing and warily shies away from public notice. The ruling trio: courtly Chairman Colin Y. Syme, 59. a Melbourne lawyer; Managing Director Norman E. Jones, 58, a quiet chemist and metallurgist; and impatient Ian M. McLennan, 52, chief general manager, who joined B.H.P. in 1933 in a cadet engineer's "pick...
...plenty of property investments in France, particularly along the coasts-it's a sure thing you're not going to see any armies landing there." In the end, the reader knows a lot about Maria Light. She works in a bakery shop, then in a pawnshop on Mechanic Avenue run by a 70-year-old sex fiend who tries to buy her body for $10 and failing, proposes marriage. She faithfully supports her invalid father-in-law. She longs for a man in bed with her but rejects one after another because they are all beneath her standard...
...I.M.F.'s $15 billion resources, made up of contributions by member nations in proportion to their wealth, has been more than enough to answer all calls for rescue. But in the last five months so many nations have lined up for help that business at the pawnshop has already approached a record $2 billion, nearly twice the previous high of $1.1 billion for all of 1957. The biggest drain came in August, when Britain alone withdrew $1.5 billion in nine currencies to shore up the shaky pound...