Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). O. Henry's short story The Ransom of Red Chief, as done in Russia...
...door is left open, of course, because the voice belongs to Michael Caine, and every word he speaks these days is received as attentively as a ransom note. In the year and a half since his role as the bemused, workaday spy Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File shot him to sudden international splendor, Caine, 33, has appeared in four films, of which three-Funeral in Berlin, Alfie and Gambit-are among the nation's top box-office draws. A fifth picture, Hurry Sundown, with Jane Fonda, opened last week in Los Angeles. Now in Finland filming another Harry...
...masters worth some $7,000,000, including three Rembrandts (among them the widely admired A Girl at a Window). What they had not figured out was who would pay them for their night's work. The college was heavily in debt, and in no position to afford a ransom. None of the works were insured, a fact that ruled out any hope that an insurance company would pay up to recover them...
...close of late to perilous inflation, reached a subtle turning point toward slower expansion? Last week not only Washington's economic wiggle watchers but also bankers in such pressure-sensitive spots as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles caught a few signs of such change. Said Chairman Ransom Cook of San Francisco-based Wells Fargo Bank: "I can see some small slowing down in prosperity...
...Apologies. A native of East Prussia (now part of Poland) and a wartime student in a Berlin Jesuit Gymnasium, Barzel soon impressed his fellow Ministers with his command of his portfolio. He broadcast regularly to East Germany and negotiated the first ransom arrangements for East German prisoners. Much of his interest in reunification dates from that time, but his proposals last week served a more immediate purpose as well. They were bannered on Page One of every major West German newspaper and were the topic of furious debate throughout the nation. A reporter in Washington asked Barzel, shortly after...