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...stolid performances, and a script (Charles Schnee and John Michael Hayes) that reads as though it had been copied off a washroom wall. Heroine to hero, with a broad wink, as she glides seductively down the hatch of his sailboat: "You can-uh-drop anchor any time." Motel proprietor to hero, who betrays a certain anxiety to get to bed with heroine: "Yeah, yeah. Man's gotta get his rest-an' he's gotta get it regular. Ha-ha!" Haha...
...Republican (112,000). The papers are the succulent descendants of a family empire founded in 1824 by Samuel Bowles. Newhouse's buy included possession rights to a 45% stock holding that belonged to the widow and four children of Sherman Hoar Bowles, the papers' eccentric last dynastic proprietor, who died in 1952. But until 1967. voting rights to that 45% are held, by a voting trust controlled by trustees of the papers' pension funds. (Bowles, though he fought unions, was a paternalistic employer who wanted his own employees to have a big stake in their paper.) Thus...
...small, coop-like structures covers a grassy, mile-wide plain. Inside each coop are four disks, each one meter across and wrapped in black plastic. From the disks, cables run to a central building crammed with oscilloscopes and other delicate gear. Last week the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, institutional proprietor of all this apparatus, announced that it has detected a cosmic ray (high-speed particle) that came to the earth from a foreign galaxy millions of light years away in the far depths of space. This was eye-opening scientific news...
Capitalist by Accident. The millionaire proprietor of this Midwest publishing empire never intended to be a capitalist. Son of an immigrant Russian-Jewish bookbinder, Emanuel Julius left school with a grammar school education, drifted around in the free-thinking Socialist currents of his time. He tried reporting for Socialist newspapers in Milwaukee and New York, in 1915 went out to Girard, Kans., to help resuscitate Appeal to Reason, a moribund Socialist periodical. After marrying Marcet Haldeman, a Girard banker's daughter, he borrowed $250,000 from her to buy the paper...
...extra flap to go over the mouth," added that "Senator McCarthy does not question what you say so much as he questions your right to say it." No one even smiled. Then up from the bar came a muscular laugh from Enrico Banducci, the club's proprietor, and Mort was in at $75 a week...