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Having won nine National Basketball Association championships in the past ten years, the Boston Celtics are naturally the prime target of any team in the league. Now the Celtics have finally been taken-but not by an N.B.A. rival. The taker is P. Ballantine & Sons, the big Newark-based brewer (estimated 1967 sales: $90 million). Ballantine paid a Manhattan real estate investment company some $4,000,000 for the team...
...down there because of the bright lights," Seymour said, "but I want all of you who can raise $1000 for the campaign to raise their hands." Not a taker in the hall...
Last week it appeared to have found a taker in Cleveland-based White Consolidated Industries Inc. White's acquisition of A.M.C.'s Kelvinator assets, the two companies announced, was "in the final stages of negotiation." A broadly based (heating equipment, industrial machinery and sewing machines) manufacturer with sales of $700 million a year, White has already purchased two appliance makers in the past year, is obviously confident that its experience in the industry will enable it to perk up Kelvinator, an operation that has made little, if any, money in recent years...
Just inside the lobby is the inevitable snack bar, but it gets little use, and the popcorn man doubles as ticket-taker. Since there are no inter-missions, and the coming attractions are the real show-stoppers, a trip to the snack bar or men's room means you miss a mile or more of skin. Two-bit milk taffy suckers sell the best...
Improving on Descartes. Although Tolstoy was constantly hounded by feelings of doubt and inadequacy, he accepted the fact of his genius and singularity without question. He was a born taker; as a youth, he amended Descartes' dictum, "I think, therefore I am," to "I want, therefore I am." And why not? Rich, landed and titled in a country where rural life still turned on the relationship of serf to master, Tolstoy could indulge his appetites without fear of rebuke. As a 22-year-old volunteer, he fought rebel tribesmen in the Caucasus, wenched, gambled, and tossed off cocktails made...