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...suggesting that it might help finance the garage, or lot, by agreeing to rent a specified number of the newly acquired spaces, Harvard is on the track of practicality. By charging students for these spaces, it can recoup whatever outlay it might make to the City. But a proposal providing capital for the actual building of the facility without assuring the University's rights would be a pointless exercise in charity. If University Hall is putting up half the loot, it ought to get its money's worth in material terms as well as good will...
Marble from Melos. The Louvre treasures that visitors see today represent the titanic effort made to recoup from the post-Waterloo low point. Rubens paintings from the Luxembourg palace were brought in to fill the gaps; French archaeologists sent back to the Louvre whole collections of Egyptian and Assyrian art. In 1820 the French Ambassador to Turkey was able to pick up five fragments of marble on the island of Melos for 1,200-1,500 francs ($230-$285). Pieced together, they became the Louvre's famed Venus de Milo...
Beauty in the Supermarkets. Postwar, Revlon's Charlie Revson sparked a significant change for the beauty industry when he bought The $64,000 Question. Revlon's sales jumped 54% in the program's first year, and others hustled to take to the air. To recoup the high cost of TV advertising quickly, firms had to tout specific products instead of whole lines, moved more and more products out of drug and department stores and into the mass-selling supermarkets. Today, more than one-fifth of the toilet preparations are sold in food stores. The industry sees...
...spectacular 56 per cent rise in tuition (it was $800 a year when '58 entered, went to $1,000 for the last two years and will rise to $1,250 next year) was as startling a leap as any. The increases were occasioned by a frantic haste to recoup for faculty salaries the comparative losses they had suffered since before the war, and in each year of '58's residence there was some sort of faculty salary increase, either direct or indirect...
WORST FLORIDA WINTER in this century has taken $55 million bite out of state's citrus, vegetable and flower production. Heavy snow wiped out half of crop in Dade County (Miami), but growers hope to recoup by pushing up prices...