Word: bit
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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LAST THE BUYER IS UNMASKED! The buyer: wealthy ("I have a bit of property") Major A. E. Allnat, who headed up a patriotic syndicate to keep the Rubens in England and turn it over to the National Gallery. "Frankly," said the major when tracked down, "I do not like the picture. I wouldn't have it in my house...
...exact day, hour and minute of the ice breakup on the Tanana and certain other rivers. The booze bill (soon to become law) requires saloons to close down each day between 5 a.m. and 8 a.m.. instead of 3 a.m. to 5 a.m. weekdays. The boudoir bit was altogether something different. Passed last week by the legislature, and ready for Governor William Egan's signature, was an act that entitles honor prisoners in the state prison to take seven-day furloughs, once every six months, to visit their homes and families at their own expense...
...Anchorage, the bill would have allowed prisoners' wives to visit their husbands at the prison in privacy. This periodical togetherness, declared Hellenthal, would help rehabilitate prisoners, preserve families, cut down on the incidence of homosexuality in prisons.-For fear of making Alaska "the laughing stock of every two-bit master of ceremonies," as .one senator put it, and to save the cost of constructing private facilities at the prisons, the state senate rewrote Hellenthal's bill to permit the prisoners to go home...
...Society, and at the two-room apartment once occupied by Lenin, she threw her solid arms about French Communist leaders and bussed them resoundingly. At the middle-class department store, the Galeries Lafayette, she fell in love with a pale green at-home dress. Later she took in a bit of the Louvre-the Mona Lisa, Napoleon's crown, the Venus de Milo-along with two of her daughters, in a 40-minute sprint. Meanwhile, at a luncheon at the Diplomatic Press Association, her husband spoke again...
...fellow traveler, and she too has displayed a few leftish twinges) troubles her not at all. "My mother," says she, "was the kind to tan hides when people haven't given up a seat in the metro or taken back a racist remark. I'm a little bit like that...