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...Some tourists look for beautiful vistas and historic sites, while others seek brothels and adventure anywhere they go. These last-named bury themselves in bawdyhouses, which exist here as elsewhere, and think that all Havana is the same as the tiny den to which their desire for a spree led them...
...four months old; Manning does a fair share of the cooking. "I'd like to lead a glamorous life," she says, "but it tires me out." As it is, she scarcely drinks four shots of whisky in a year, and a taxi ride is almost like a spree. She has no jewelry, no furs. She still wears some blouses that she bought in high school. The spice of her life is a window-shopping walk down Fifth Avenue...
...purchases, should they be deemed necessary. Buying could get under way on short notice." The purchases would amount to something like 170 million lbs., only 1½% of the year's total expected output. But it is big enough to raise prices if compressed into a quick buying spree (Benson's statisticians figure that if the Department buys 6% of a commodity during a given marketing period, it will raise prices about...
...final period, fullback Dick Oehmler ended the scoring spree with a one-yard back through the same right guard spot. The next time the varsity gained possession marked the first time Harvard was forced to punt--at 7:40 of the final period, with a 54-point lead...
...over $8,000,000 in gold and diamonds from the fabulous mines of Minas Gerais. Most of the gold went to the Portuguese Crown, but the little that the miners gleaned for themselves made them rich. To prove their piety, the miners embarked on a church-building spree that created some of the most handsomely rococo churches in South America. On these young António Francisco worked, first as carpenter, later as architect and sculptor...