Word: sums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book--the blatant commercialism of Broadway, the struggles of the unknown author--are not new. They are not freshly handled. And the hero, finally, is paranoiac. It is difficult to be sympathetic toward his talent when his naivete, his obnoxiousness, and his persecution complex stand out so strikingly. In sum, The Fanatic is a novel best described as poorly conceived, repetitive, and over-whelmingly dull...
Thus Bear Bryant will probably wind up with more spending money than Wally Butts, who also sued the Post. An Atlanta federal jury awarded Butts $3,060,000, but last month the trial judge held the sum "grossly excessive" and reduced it to $460,000, which Butts accepted. Even so, Butts will keep only a small portion of his award: $60,000 in tax-free compensatory damages and, after income tax deductions, only about $76,000 of the $400,000 in punitive damages levied against the Post...
...John Foster Dulles loved to get away from it all on two private islands he owned on the Canadian side of Lake Ontario. Now a longtime Dulles friend, Chaumont, N.Y., Marina Operator Robert Hart, who had a cottage on the main island, has bought the hideaway for an undisclosed sum, promises to "keep it as it is." That's not quite what will happen to Franklin D. Roosevelt's old 165-ft. yacht Potomac. Up for auction, the vessel which the wartime President called his "Shangri-La," went for $55,000 to none other than Elvis Presley...
...student is applying for his present room, his class priority number becomes his final number. If not, he adds his class and lot number to get his final number. A group of roommates then adds the sum of its individual numbers to a "grouping number" (250); the result is a "group priority...
...added that he thinks the University would be justified in spending a considerable sum to regroup suites in the old Houses in order to give private bedrooms to the largest possible number of students...