Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something of Value (at the Shopper's World Cinema in Framingham). Hard-hitting transferral to the screen of Robert Ruark's harder-hitting best-seller about the white British versus the black Mau-Mau in Africa. Laudably, the complex issues are not oversimplified; and both sides are properly shown to be at fault. Superlative performances by Sidney Poitier, Wendy Hiller and Juano Hernandez. Even Rock Hudson is good; and Dana Wynter's appearances are fortunately brief...
...addition to such prices to the seller, buyers paid an extra 16.7% to 18.2% of the purchase prices to French tax authorities. Said a shaken Manhattan art dealer who retreated to New York right after the sale: "Absolute insanity...
...That Binds. In Philadelphia, Sam Bookbinder, who always gives a dime to the old shoelace seller by his famed restaurant, but never takes a pair, reported that one day, receiving his dime, the oldster said: "I hate to bring this up, sir, but the laces...
Besides Fiat, 16 foreign companies are making a determined bid for the U.S. second-car market this year. The top seller, Germany's Volkswagen, is already racing 23% ahead of last year's rate of 50,000 U.S. registrations. France's Renault so far this year has sold 3,970 cars v. 2,910 in 1956, figures it will reach 20,000 for the year. Britain expects to sell 50,000 to 60,000 cars in the U.S. during 1957. It has solid ground for such optimism. January-February shipments of British cars to the U.S. reached...
...agreed to deliver $822 million in goods and services to Israel over a twelve-year period; and individual indemnifications to Nazi victims may total $1.5 billion. No one argues that this is payment in full. But Jewish organizations agree that "the shame factor" is widespread. "The local railroad-ticket seller," said one embarrassed young man in Bonn last week, "knows I am a Jew and fairly leaps to take care of me first when I'm standing in line. I guess he was a guard in a concentration camp once...