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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saturday, September 4 N.F.L. PRESEASON GAME (CBS, 2:00 p.m.). San Francisco v. Pittsburgh...
...Dear old Sandringham," murmured King George V, "the place I love better than anywhere else in the world." Three generations of British royalty felt the same way about the vast, 350-room pile in the flat fields of Norfolk-never mind its drafty inefficiency. Then along came modern-minded Prince Philip, with inventories for the kitchen, time and motion studies for the help and a peck of new gadgets. Washstands were replaced by hot and cold running water, open fires with central heating. Now the work load is so low that six of Sandringham's eleven 56?-per-hour...
Growing Appetite. The regionals serve as a marketplace for shares of companies too small or local to be listed on the bigger exchanges, but the function is declining. Today only 739 stocks are traded exclusively on regional exchanges v. 1,300 in 1940. Their main role has changed to being that of a secondary market for shares traded on the New York and American boards, whose prices they closely follow. The surge in the price of seats reflects the growing appetite among member firms of the New York Stock Exchange to join the regional exchanges-notably the six largest that...
...time for twin-engine models. For busy men, the time saved makes the cost worthwhile. Fully one-fifth of the passengers on Jacksonville's Gateway Aviation are lawyers, who for $85 each can zip 170 miles to Tallahassee, the state capital, and back in 2 hr. 10 min. v. an eight-hour trip by auto. Many taximen provide sandwiches and drinks, sell flight insurance, even let holders of well-known credit cards charge their flights...
...which Robert, an actor, is leaving on a week's engagement, Charlotte again gets that old feeling−wrist, knee, elbow, torso. This time Robert is in a rush. His plane leaves in 30 minutes, but he spends most of his time in a monologue on role playing v. real life. End of movie, with Charlotte's disembodied hand sliding across the sheet out of the screen and leaving it empty...