Word: rare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remarkable thing that you have done in publishing some of the rare, fine Byzantine iconography in your April 13 issue, together with your story on the expedition to the Greek Orthodox monastery of St. Catherine. No detraction of appreciation is intended of your fine color plates by pointing out that your descriptions were purely secular...
Back on Capitol Hill, Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson saw opportunity: REA was one of those rare issues where Democrats of the South would likely stick together with other Democrats around the compass. They decided they could muster the necessary two-thirds vote to override the veto and doubly defeat the President. Republican Leader Everett Dirksen and Ike's other lieutenants in the Senate were in glum agreement; with the help of six farm-bloc minded Republicans (Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper. South Dakota's Francis Case and Karl Mundt, North Dakota...
...rivers. I wish you to hear our country, that you should smell our woods, feel our Slavic heart." She belted out a couple of rousing folk songs, wound up with a teary Tenderly that touched every expatriate-loving heart (fee: $50-$80). Pretty Roslyn Rensch, harpist ("a program of rare charm and beauty for discriminating audiences"), strummed out Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young Charms and Around the World in 80 Days. She was fine until she ran into some trouble on about the 76th day, but her pluck won nice applause...
...insisted on anonymity) got a volume of 200 parchment pages that had required the skins of 100 sheep, plus eight watercolors that originally served as models for Dali's lithographs, plus three extra sets of lithographs on special papers. Publisher Foret is quite reconciled to having this rare volume drop out of sight for years, expects it will be seen by only a handful of sympathetic souls. As Foret explained last week, "The real bibliophile never shows his book, except to another bibliophile-a man who vibrates as he does...
...rare double split, General Development shareholders approved a one-for-one split on top of a one-for-four distribution-raising Peter's total to ten shares. By week's end, as General Development's old stock bounded back to 55⅛, Peter's original investment of $153.50 had a market value of $220.50. Wrote Peter in a school theme: "I worked hard and made a small fortune. Now I have invested the money, and I am going to relax and make a big fortune...