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...Bung (Brother) made his initial blunder when he decided not to reopen Indonesia's $3,000,000 pavilion at the fair because of "the open support given by the U.S. to the neocolonialist project of Malaysia." Moses immediately threatened to confiscate the place-particularly since the Indonesians still owe him some $250,000 to cover demolition costs when the fair ends. Cagily, the Indonesians stalled Moses by hinting that they were trying to get a New York entrepreneur to run the pavilion for them until the demolition money was raised. Meanwhile, they began hauling out of the pavilion everything...
...never faced such confusion. However, Christie's catalogue for the sale clearly stated, "if any dispute arises between two or more Bidders, the Lot so in dispute shall be immediately put up again and re-sold." As bedlam took over, Chance declared: "I have no option but to reopen the bidding." In a matter of seconds, with Marlborough no longer interested, Rembrandt's Titus became Simon's. The price: $2,234,400, a bare $64,000 below...
Attempts by government troops to reopen Route 1 between Bongson and the next province to the north are repulsed with an ease that borders on flippancy. A nine-day push by two battalions of South Vietnamese marines cleared a bare seven miles at the cost of six dead (including one U.S. adviser)-after which the hard-won stretch of roadway was abandoned for lack of artillery support. Frustrated and fatalistic, Saigon finally began contemplating sending a full marine brigade into Bongson-but no one knew if even that many troops could hold...
...Moore, president of the First National City Bank, "we would permit the implication that the fair is in satisfactory financial condition." Actually, said Moore, whose bank has a $6,000,000 stake in the fair, the fair will need "several million dollars" to pay expenses before it can even reopen on April 21. Moore was joined in his walkout by a prestigious cast: David Rockefeller, president of the Chase Manhattan Bank; William S. Renchard, president of the Chemical Bank New York Trust Co.; Dale E. Sharp, vice chairman of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co.; and William H. Moore, chairman of Bankers...
Both sides agreed to start bargaining in advance of Jan. 1 when the USW formally plans to reopen the contract...