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...Omaha World-Herald's gibe that it is now "all right to teach that the White House should be blown up," to the Cleveland Plain Dealer's invitation: "Well, comrades, you've got what you wanted. The Supreme Court has handed it to you on a platter. Come...
...paintings brought in $874,000 (plus $147,000 in taxes), three times as much as the auctioneer had anticipated, and one of the canvases was sold for the highest known price ever paid for a modern painting. The painting: Gauguin's Still Life with Apples. (1901), a platter of succulent, Cézannesque green apples on an opulent green tablecloth. It went to Greek-American Shipping Executive Basil Peter Goulandris for $297,000 (plus 16.7% in taxes). Mrs. Biddle had bought the Gauguin in 1953 at Manhattan's Wildenstein Gallery for $80.000. "So what?" shrugged one French woman...
...Dallas kids yelled as the fat man stumped onstage, flashed an 88-key grin and tore into the piano with both hands, like a starving man wolfing a platter of chicken. The kids shrilled an octave higher as the performer knocked out a couple of bars introduction, then quieted down to mere noise as he ducked his head shyly, leaned over to the mike and opened a satchel-sized mouth: "Ah'm walkin' "- each word a hard, booming beat-"Yes indeed, Ah'm talkin'." A diamond-heavy right hand jackhammered treble chords between beats; three saxes...
...better mechanization enjoyed by American agriculture over foreign growers. With foreign living standards rising rapidly, aid Fleming, the market for cotton is increasing at the rate of a million bales of cotton each year. U.S. growers can either compete for that market or hand it over "on a silver platter" to foreign growers or to synthetics...
...stand-up coffee bars, riffling the leaves of the acacia trees. Steamers hooted in the harbor, cattle bawled in the stockyards, streetcars clanged and creaked. In the restaurants, solid citizens, their appetites renewed by the crisp air, tucked napkins into collars and turned with sober and fastidious attention to platter-size steaks and tall bottles of red wine. At night, in the tango palaces, unsmiling couples danced as black-suited singers mourned...