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...instance," says Katzander, "French paintings now sell in Germany for a fraction of what they sell for in London. Paris or New York. This is something the buyer should know." Katzander thinks that buyers should also know such things as how to read an art catalogue. In one London auction house, if a painting is listed as "by John Constable, R.A.," it means that the house experts are confident of its authenticity. As confidence wanes, the listing changes-to plain "John Constable,'' then to "J. Constable." and finally to an abrupt "Constable...
George Wald, professor of Biology and head of the course, disclosed yesterday that only a fraction of a point separated the mean averages posted by the two groups at mid-term, with the biology concentrators and pre-med students doing slightly better...
Keeping Them Busy. Of the 100,000 tons of foodstuffs, only a fraction apparently reached the hungry people. At one point, 38,000 tons of food piled up in Peruvian ports, much of it rotting for lack of transport. Only a few hundred tons daily made its way up to the hills. Vast quantities were bought up by fast operators, who resold it to better-fed lowland folk at bargain prices. This maneuver was facilitated by the Peruvian government's decision to sell the food. The idea of charging a small sum, as one Peruvian explained at the time...
...fraction of Mr. Kennedy's spending projects is passed, the New Frontier is liable to turn into the Last Roundup...
Essentially scavengers, the dealers-who supply 9,000 surplus stores from coast to coast-hover around military stockpiles and private industry warehouses, buying up obsolete and overstocked goods at a fraction (5-7%) of cost. There is plenty to go around-and not just leftovers from the last war. The Government alone last year unloaded $2.1 billion worth of "usable property." Under a house-cleaning policy recommended in 1955 by the Hoover Commission, it plans to scrap even more in the years to come. The supply seems inexhaustible; the military services often buy too much or find a product obsolete...