Word: pots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Painted on the refectory wall at Milan's Santa Maria della Grazie, Leonardo's masterpiece started going to pot even before his death, has faded and flaked so badly that only the barest details remain...
Tires & Symbols. Frenchmen and foreigners alike rely on the verdicts of Michelin; over the years, the guidebook has built up a reputation for accuracy and incorruptibility. Its motto is Pas de piston, pas de pot de vin-roughly, "No pull, no bribery." Not a line of paid advertising is carried on its pages...
...nobody's great surprise, John, 54, and Cecil Moores, 50, have fared better than bettors on their pools. The reason is simple: they take a flat 2.2% out of every pot (or some $1.6 million a year) to pay themselves and cover costs of plant and equipment. Of the rest, 30% goes to the government in taxes, 15.7% for operating expenses and 52.1% in "dividends," i.e., payoffs. The Moores brothers, said to be worth $36 million now, have long since expanded into other fields. They own a chain of 43 stores, patterned after Woolworth's, a big mail...
Special Delivery. Britons play the pools so eagerly because they offer one of the few real-if remote-opportunities to get rich in Britain's high-tax, austere economy. Even the biggest payoffs are taxfree, since the government takes its 30% out of the pot...
...Lamp for Nightfall, he un-limbers the old routine in a Maine setting. This time it is the old Yankee stock that is going to pot, steadily losing ground to the more vital "Canucks" and "square-heads." Take the Emerson family, Author Caldwell's prime exhibit: Thede Emerson. richest man in Clearwater, has $200,000 in the bauk, but will he let his son Howard go off to college in Boston? No, he keeps him at home doing chores so he won't have to get a hired man. Thede hates the French Canadians, but he is letting...