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...even Jeweler Harry Winston, who had long coveted the stone, was forced to drop out. Winning bid: $305,000. The determined purchaser: Richard Burton, who sent his agents to snap it up for Wife Elizabeth Taylor because he fancies slipping a little love token on her finger now and again. Explained Burton's secretary: "Mr. Burton doesn't give presents for a special occasion. He gives presents because he likes giving them." Said Richard: "My little girl is ecstatically happy about getting...
SCHOLARSHIPS. Small scholarships are usually offered to middle-class students whom the college wants to recruit and who it fears will go elsewhere if they don't receive some token of the college's esteem...
...received additional Butazolidin-probably sometime between Tuesday night and Thursday night preceding the Derby. During that period, Cavalaris was in Fort Erie, Ontario, tending to other horses in his string, and Barnard was in charge of Dancer's Image. However, by failing to penalize Harthill and giving only token suspensions to the trainers (they could have been barred for life), the stewards indicated they had no proof 1) that a second dose was administered, or 2) if one was, that Cavalaris or Barnard knew anything about...
...point clear?... Yet in spite of these remarks Ralph McGill is invaluable, because the South needs his voice on civil rights. By the same token, however, Senator Fulbright, whom your "profile" writer permits Mr. McGill to criticize without rebuttal as a pathetic "sort of character with a great liberal reputation," is equally invaluable--obviously not because he votes against open housing legislation but because the nation needs his voice on foreign policy...
...Federal Firearms Act is even more useless. It really keeps no one--even a criminal--from buying a gun, since there is no means for assuring that the name given by the buyer is correct. The license fee for dealers is a token $1 per year. Until a recent crackdown by the government, many gun fanciers used this portion of the act to declare themselves "dealers" and receive discounts from wholesale gun houses...