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...price: reportedly somewhere between $650,000 and $750,000. Though Nixon's literary agent, Irving ("Swifty") Lazar, announced that "Mr. Nixon chose David Frost because of Mr. Frost's unique and wide-ranging experience," it was obvious that the interview rights had simply gone to the highest bidder...
...lower classes because lower-class culture can't be changed by wasteful alterations in society or environment, no matter how large-scale. Possibly one way we can change the effects of lower-class culture, Banfield postulates, is to auction off its members' babies to the highest "normal" class bidder...
...hotels) who displays his acumen by fleecing the Bulgarians during war treaty negotiations, of 50 prisoners of war for 200 flea-ridden horses. This is Bluntschli the mobile mercenary, the modern and disinterested man who, like Andrew Undershaft in Major Barbara, sells his services to the highest bidder...
...cannot comprehend the moral basis upon which you select Man of the Year. Here is a person who blatantly manipulated economies and crises throughout the world. In a society where morals are consistently sold out to the highest bidder, you rank with the best of the offenders...
...high school to sign a five-year contract as an apprentice jockey. When he grew too big to ride, Stephens turned to training, scoring his first victory in 1940. His total involvement with all facets of racing includes even horse matchmaking-it was Stephens' idea to mate Bold Bidder and Queen Sucree in 1970. The product was named Cannonade. To this day he still checks the feed supply and water buckets in each stall before heading home. "It's sort of reflex action by now," he says. "It comes from the days when filling the pails at night...