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Anyone for $50 Million? Though Chicago's 19th century French paintings are its crowning glories, the museum also owns one of the top half-dozen Oriental collections in the U.S., a superlative selection of prints and drawings, and an impressive cross section of European paintings from the 15th century to the 17th century, topped off by El Greco's soaring Assumption of the Virgin. The rambling Italian Renaissance palazzo on Michigan Avenue enfolds an art school and the recent (1962) Morton wing for modern...
Crimson insides Jaime Vargas and Lutz Hoeppner, who mounted attack after attack all afternoon, got together on a play that they couldn't have learned in America. It was like a give-and-go in basketball--Vargas to Hoeppner back through a half-dozen people to Vargas, all alone for the goal...
...Allow me to correct the inaccurate and rather damaging statement in your review of Under the Hill by Aubrey Beardsley and myself [Aug. 11], that the book contains "four-letter words." None of the half-dozen well-worn crudities implied by this expression can be found anywhere in the text. All our own words have at least seven letters...
...tickets cheap so that he could "build up a large sales report." Another imaginative fellow liked to tell prospects he was in the all-expenses-paid type of "prize business"-and would be glad to use his connections to get cut-rate tickets. Los Angeles police recently nabbed a half-dozen such characters...
...even more serious loss for the Russians was the half-dozen SAM ground-to-air missiles that, along with their computers, guidance equipment and fueling systems, fell into Israeli hands at an Egyptian base near the Suez Canal. Though the U.S. has already deduced a great deal about SAM's capabilities (it can fly at 2,600 m.p.h. and reach 60,000 feet) and limitations (it cannot execute sharp turns) from intelligence reports and from its performance in North Viet Nam, close study of the Sinai SAMs will give scientists invaluable information. Israel has already passed...