Word: auction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Through the wonder of a nifty designer drug, I was able to attend a real live pig auction in Tumbleweed, Missouri...
...broke into the apartment of an accused swindler, murdered him with 13 bayonet stabs, then emerged blood splattered to a press corps stunned, but not too stunned to keep the TV cameras rolling. It led to West Germany, where a couple of magazines, Bunte Illustrierte and Stern, tried to auction off to other media bits of Mengele, photographs, letters and other memorabilia. Finally, it led to Beirut, where during 17 days of astonishing symbiosis, television and terrorists co- produced -- there is no better word -- a hostage drama...
Meanwhile, trustees of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute decided last August to offer Hughes Aircraft to the highest bidder because of various seemingly insoluble tax and legal problems. It turned to the Wall Street firm of Morgan Stanley to handle the auction. "The Russians would have been happy to make the highest bid," quipped Joseph Perella, a managing director of First Boston, a Hughes adviser. From the outset, GM seemed the most likely buyer. Detroit's recovery had left the largest U.S. automaker with some $9 billion to spend, even after the E.D.S. acquisition, and Smith badly wanted Hughes...
Last week the company, which had 1984 sales of $4.9 billion, was put on the auction block by its sole owner, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute of Bethesda, Md. Expected selling price: around $4 billion, but possibly as much as $6 billion. Among possible buyers: General Motors, Ford and Boeing...
Dores is an impressionist expert at a London auction house who has been sent to New York to help increase business in that prestigious and lucrative field. In town just long enough to establish a ruinous double love life, he is ordered to the Deep South to close a deal for some Sisleys and Vuillards belonging to a crusty old patriarch named Loomis Gage. For Gage, read Snopes; Henderson is soon in far beyond his depths of courage or cunning with this moody, devious clan. The old man's fortune comes from some patents he took out on parking...