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Davis is beguilingly guileful as a runaway slave who changes hands like a dirty dollar. He is captured by a band of Indians, who unload him on Fur Trapper Lancaster as "payment" for the load of skins they steal from him. The redskins, in turn, are zapped by a batch of bounty hunters, who earn their living by selling Indian scalps for $25 apiece, and Davis gets himself captured by these private enterprisers. Their queen is Shelley Winters, a refugee from a fancy house. She nurses her stogie on a brass bed in the covered wagon...
...Glad to Unload. The Russians, on the other hand, have been bending over backward to be nice to Iran. Capitalizing on the Shah's determination to industrialize, they offer him heavy machinery and even fully installed industrial plants, complete with Soviet technicians, in exchange for iron ore and petroleum that the Iranians are only too glad to unload. Five other East European countries have followed Russia's lead, and together they have agreed to build him 19 major factories, 500 miles of railroad and a pipeline that will carry natural gas from the gulf to the Caspian...
...John F. Kennedy Memorial Library Corporation has been embarrassed too lately. The hearing where McLaughlin and Mother had their tiff was all about the Kennedy Library. After two years of pulling and scraping, it seemed last week that the Library had finally found a place to unload its 12-acre bulk. But now, there are still bills and hearings and hold-ups and Milton Mothers. Doubt is creeping in again, and the Library may not be able to meet its self-imposed, January, 1970, deadline for groundbreaking...
Just because Harvard refuses to take stands as an institution does not mean that it is neutral. It has over $600 million invested in stocks, much of that in large corporations that benefit from the war. No one is asking the University to unload the stocks and buy something neutral, like Swiss Savings Bonds. But the first step is to force the University to realize that it is contributing to this war, whether it can help...
...funds, and sell off Investors Planning Corp., a mutual-fund sales firm that I.O.S. purchased in 1965 for $2,000,000. Cornfeld claims to be happy the way things turned out. American clients account for only 3% of l.O.S.'s business anyway-and Cornfeld figures to unload Investors Planning at an $8,000,000 profit...