Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short fuse -guaranteed to explode somewhere in the second act. Sylvia Ashton-Warner's Spinster and Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God show the bomb defused. Both novels capture the faded maiden in dignity and pathos. She is as obsolete as an antimacassar-and as real as the reader...
...years, the Boston Celtics are naturally the prime target of any team in the league. Now the Celtics have finally been taken-but not by an N.B.A. rival. The taker is P. Ballantine & Sons, the big Newark-based brewer (estimated 1967 sales: $90 million). Ballantine paid a Manhattan real estate investment company some $4,000,000 for the team...
...Pritzkers rely on good managers who are paid generous stock options and bonuses to make them "think like owners." Still, the Pritzkers are skilled operators. Abram, now 72, first discovered the family touch back in the Depression, when he found that he could make more money dabbling in real estate than laboring with the law. Leaving legal chores to subordinates (among them: Arthur Goldberg), Abram tended to business. He bought into, among other things, Chicago's appliance-making Cory Corp., which he served as chairman until last year, when Hershey Foods Corp. acquired Cory for $23 million...
Money has rolled in so steadily that since 1963 Mclntire's movement has been buying Cape May real estate, including the two largest hotels and a complex of beachside houses and cottages. It now owns property there assessed at $1,500,000. The hotels are operated on a nonprofit basis. Hotelier Mclntire keeps his room rates modest (as low as $11 a day single) and his guests sober (neither hotel has a bar). His takeover in Cape May has provided a permanent headquarters for his religious movement, which he calls the Twentieth Century Reformation. A jowly six-footer with...
This collection of Ionesco's memories, thoughts and recollected dreams is strongly reminiscent of his play Rhinoceros, which suggests that there is nothing as real as a dream. Ionesco hangs on to his own dreams with desperate tenacity. He confides the matter of them but resists having their concreteness undermined by explanations. They are what they are, and, most important, they...