Word: stunners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nothing like the colossal 700-work collection of medieval ivories and enamels, old master paintings and drawings, Renaissance sculpture and impressionist paintings amassed by onetime German Leather Manufacturer Robert von Hirsch was likely to come on the block soon again. But, even so, the long awaited sale was a stunner. By week's end, with Von Hirsch's collection of impressionist paintings still to be sold, the orders on Sotheby's books totaled a stupendous $22.9 million. By the time the auction concludes this week, the final take is expected to hit $35 million -far beyond...
Just as everyone had feared, last week's inflation figures were a stunner, and the most appalling thing about them was the high cost of eating. Not only does April's .9% rise in consumer prices mean that the economy is once again in double-digit inflation?11.4% on an annual basis ?but food prices are climbing more than twice as fast, 23.8%. The rise is turning the nation's supermarket shoppers into an army of walking wounded and making grossly naive the Administration's January prediction that food prices would go up by only 4% to 6% this...
...second trial the new Passaic County prosecutor, Burrell Ives Humphreys, and his "Carter task force" had a few surprises in store for the defense. A major stunner: Alfred Bello took the stand and calmly recanted his recantation. Calling it a lie, Bello pointed to Carter and Artis as the two men he had seen leaving the bar. Hogan and Raab, he said, had offered him bribes to recant. Moreover, two former defense witnesses backed up the prosecution's contention that either Carter or his former lawyer tried to cook up a phony alibi; they testified this time that they...
Carter has said that there will be many women and blacks in his Administration, and it could be that he has in mind more than the traditional "minority" appointments in housing, welfare, etc. State could be a real stunner...
Insurance companies have complained that jury verdicts and damage settlements for injuries are getting out of hand. They may now be getting out of sight; each week seems to bring another stunner. Three recent cases indicate that the trend is still onward and upward; they also provide some new theories on who should be paid as well...