Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When I recently moved from a suburban Washington district, three of the largest real estate dealers found it impossible to handle the sale of my house because I asked that it be shown to every financially qualified buyer, regardless of religious or national heritage. These agencies were thus barring me not only from their large clientele, but from the considerable minority family market in the Washington area-a clear infringement of my right to sell my property to whomever I chose...
...revisionism." Down the streets they rampaged, roughing up Chinese in foreign dress, ordering shopkeepers to stop selling books except those that reflect Mao's thinking and to rid themselves of imported articles or luxury items. In the place of cosmetics, ordinary floor-scrubbing soap was put on sale for facial care. Also on the taboo list: goldfish, exotic birds, flowers, antiques, elaborate coffins, signs with gilded instead of red lettering, and jewelry...
...sent at least 163 per sons to the firing squads. More than half of them had Jewish names, leading to charges that Jews were being made the scapegoats for a chronic Soviet ill: the notorious pilferage from state-owned factories of everything from lipstick to girls' sweaters, for sale at a profit. Last week another such case was revealed - and again the big name was Jewish...
...California, Sister Polly responded with an emotional letter to Variety in which she blamed everything on the executors. Columnist Leonard Lyons last week brightly suggested that Billy be buried in the foundations of the 50-story skyscraper that will rise on the former site of his Ziegfeld Theater, the sale of which enriched the estate by $18 million. In Manhattan, Sister Miriam responded with a letter telling Lyons not to be "callous...
Last week, rapping his "public expressions of insubordination," the Vatican not only turned down DuBay's appeal of his suspension but also ordered him to end the sale and distribution of his book. What were the legal grounds? The book did not have his bishop's imprimatur, as required by canon law. DuBay protested that many other Catholics have published without imprimatur, that the church is making a special case out of him, and that he had been "tried in absentia by anonymous judges." Contending that the order "goes completely against the Vatican Council's statement...