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...more." Art has become as much of a speculative exercise as an esthetic experience; collectors have bought millions of dollars worth of art works, often in hope that the purchase will increase in value as the artist becomes better known. Amateurs can also dabble in oil-well exploration, beef cattle, race horses, Broadway plays, foreign exchange, gold and silver and precious gems on the chance that Oliver Wendell Holmes's probable will occur...
...proud-owner of Chet Huntley's beef farm [Aug. 18] out "in the badlands of central New Jersey" (sometimes referred to by other purveyors of news as that beautifully tranquil countryside out near Bucks County, Pa.), I feel constrained to advise your readership that Marshal Dillon has all the vigilantes locked in the hoosegow, and they won't be let out unless the Beverly Hillbillies ride in to shoot up the town...
...Malawi also run to Beira, outgoing Rhodesian goods are simply provided with Malawian or Mozambican certificates of origin before being loaded aboard ship. To show how brazen the practice getting around the U.N. rules has become, the Sunday Times reprints a Mozambique certification for 4,500 Ibs. of corned beef-a profitable product that the Portuguese colony does not manufacture...
...clothing from shop windows. One group of hoods energetically dismantled a whole front porch and lobbed the bricks at police. Two small boys struggled down Twelfth Street with a load of milk cartons and a watermelon. Another staggered from a supermarket under the weight of a side of beef. One prosperous Negro used his Cadillac convertible to haul off a brand-new deep freeze...
Spreading Fires. Rushing to Detroit at midday Sunday, Michigan's Governor George Romney called in 370 state troopers to beef up the defenses, then by late afternoon ordered 7,000 National Guardsmen mobilized...