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...take in more than $15,000,000. Of this, they estimated that no more than $3,000,000 was spent on advertising, promotion and mailing; another $2,000,000 for royalties; another $5,000,000 to print the books. Bookmen concluded: of the remaining $5,000,000, a substantial chunk was profit...
...committee wanted UNO to live just where a big chunk of New York City's wealthier commuters already live -in 42 square miles of southwestern Connecticut and New York's suburban Westchester County. Yugoslavia's Dr. Stoyan Gavrilovic pointed out the area's ad vantages. It was within easy commuting distance of Manhattan, where UNO dele gates would meet until the world capital was finished. It was close to railroads, the famed Merritt Parkway, the Westchester County Airport. The country was beautiful - green, rolling, dotted with fine houses, clubs, old towns...
Chief target: alert, 46-year-old Joaquim Rolla, who controls a healthy chunk of the $300-million-a-year casino business. In 15 years, Rolla jumped from an unlettered horse trader to operator of six booming gambling palaces. He got such a name for efficiency that ex-President Getulio Vargas once asked him to run Brazil's $90-million steel plant (now abuilding). Rolla declined, preferring to build, near the summer capital of Petropolis, the ultimate in hotel-resort-casinos, $10-million, castle-like Quitandinha, where Brazil's inflation-rich flip colored chips onto the felt and frolic...
...years lightly. His voice was firm, his hands steady, his face and fingers just perceptibly wrinkled. He walked toward the grate to give the fire some encouragement. Swiftly he moved the screen aside, thrust the poker into the coals, put on a thick glove and tossed a fresh chunk of coal squarely into the center of the fire. He made these casual, hostly gestures with neatness and dispatch. But as he was settling again in the deep sofa, something disturbed the Prime Minister. He hopped up, shifted the fire screen one-half inch to the left...
...good chunk of its outsized circulation comes from city folk with a nostalgia or a yen for rural life. In this atomic year, The Old Farmer's Almanac's straw-colored covers looked more reassuring than ever...