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...bidding is not really free at all. It is now standard practice in some auction houses to set a "reserve" on each work up for sale: if the bidding does not go beyond a certain price, the auctioneer simply pretends to accept a final bid and lets the work revert to the seller without his having to pay any commission to the house. Since other potential buyers have no idea of what the reserve is, they are at a tremendous disadvantage; the price has in a sense been rigged against a low price before the sale even begins...
...Stalingrad (pop. 600,000) wanted to do away with one of the legendary names of World War II-a place where over a million men clashed, in the turning point of the war-but had a hard time finding a new one; it was unthinkable that the city revert to its pre-Red name of Tsaritsyn. The final, river-inspired decision: Volgograd...
When finally Elgin summons the courage to invite Caroline out for dinner, and they link arms in walking together, they revert to the safety that a discussion Metaphysical Poetry offers...
...failures-blamed the collective farmers for clumsy plowing, which permitted "a tremendous incursion of weeds," and for inept practices, which caused "heavy losses of grain in the course of harvesting." The party secretary of the Kirgiz Republic admitted that lazy farmers had allowed 20% of the arable land to revert to wilderness. Tadzhikistan's party secretary expressed fear that there would be serious failures in cotton deliveries unless collective farmers responded to his pleas that they revive "the former glory of our master cotton pickers...
...Foreign Secretary, the Earl of Home, summed up the nation's prevailing mood and hope: "We are in danger of becoming prisoners of our own pronouncements and of rigidity growing up which nobody can escape and which might possibly lead to war. I would like to revert to the quiet, serious patient techniques of diplomacy, free from the threat of force or use of force...