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There are interludes of genuine hilarity, chiefly provided by Bob Dishy as a zany, Teutonically accented technician of ever-improving death machines who is always ready to sell his services to the highest bidder. The cast delivers the lines as if they were quotations, and even such accomplished performers as Howard Da Silva and Brian Bedford seem a trifle stilted. Christopher Walken, however, breathes radiant innocence into the unknown soldier, and stirs the only honest emotion of the evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Platitudes on Parade | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

...raise a bit of extra revenue, New York State sells its list of motor-vehicle owners, complete with addresses, to the highest bidder. New York vehicle owners are thereupon inundated with predictable bales of junk mail, sales-pitch telephone calls, and even personal visits by hawkers of various products. The situation became so intolerable to Old Leftist Author and 1967 Valiant Owner Corliss Lament that he sued to prevent the state from selling his name. In the warming winds of judicial concern over invasion of privacy, Lament thought his chances good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decisions: Mailed Junk & Privacy Bunk | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

...year old and far from over), tender offers generally click or flop within a fortnight. One reason: stockbrokers find them particularly profitable since under New York Stock Exchange rules they get a double commission, once on the sale by the investor and again on the purchase by the bidder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mergers: The Tender War | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

...fact that enhances their popularity. But the SEC feels that "the unwary public" needs protection, notably more information to help stockholders evaluate confusing claims of rival tender offers. Accordingly, the commission is backing a bill by New Jersey's Democratic Senator Harrison Williams that would require a tender bidder to disclose his name, financing arrangements, and any plans he has for the firm. Though most brokerage firms and investment bankers favor regulation, many disagree with one part of the bill, which would force tender makers to divulge their plans to the SEC five days in advance of the actual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mergers: The Tender War | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

Among other new highs at Sotheby's: a Cézanne watercolor still life of a milk jug and apples, which brought $406,000-the highest price ever paid for any watercolor at auction. Since the bidder was a Los Angeles dealer, people speculated that he had acted for Collector Norton Simon, who remained mum. A Degas bronze horse pranced off for a record price of $51,800. A Chagall picture (circa 1917) brought $84,000, a new record for him. All in all, Sotheby's knocked down for $2,962,960, 87 works of art, a record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Market: Price of a Picasso | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

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