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...months. He was living on the income from a sinecure given him by a sympathetic Republican governor, in a dingy Back Bay apartment. That night, standing in the front parlor of O'Brien's Funeral Home, reeking of liquor, with a flask filled with John Jameson's in his pocket, he was living testimony to the fact that a Boston Irishman couldn't make it in Brahma society...
...presumably packers, truckers, wholesalers, distributors and super-marketeers-swallow the rest. Nixon was being a bit casual with his statistics. In fact, the farmer gets 400 of the food dollar (see chart, page 22). He does even better on relatively unprocessed foods like meat, raw vegetables and fruit. Ranchers pocket about two-thirds of the retail price for beef, which accounted for the biggest chunk of the February price surge...
...another move to increase her pocket money, Christine hit upon an ingenious device: selling shares in her rights to the estate. She persuaded nine people to pay a total of $1,500,000 at a rate of 30? for an eventual return of $1 from the estate. These nine, in turn, sold shares in their shares to some 700 other people. By the time of her grandmother's death, fluctuations in the value of her estate had reduced Christine's share to $ 11.9 million, and all the shares and loans were now due. Various creditors were claiming nearly...
...pocket-sized electronic calculator that almost instantaneously flashes answers in bright numbers. A tabletop clock that at the press of a button displays with lighted numerals the hour, minute and second in any of the world's 24 time zones. A transistorized depth-finder that tells the Sunday sailor in glowing red numbers exactly how many feet, or fathoms, of water lie under his keel. These futuristic devices, already on the market, are only samples of the dazzling consumer spin-offs from a totally new scientific field called "optoelectronics"-the marriage of modern optics with space-age electronics...
...reduced-tuition increased from $300 to $1000, while full tuition increased from $1760 to $2800. All of Dunlop's one-half million dollar increase in fellowship funds, and more. is due to the rise in tuition: the administration has merely taken money from one pocket and placed it in another...