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...that after the season is over the cards can still be used as spoke attachments to give your bicycle a motorcycle inflection. Both genres rely on dry statistics, a boring anecdote and a posed glossy; although the sports scribe includes an over-abundance of all three items to pad his thin research...
...have since been forced by neighborhood pressure to give Rajah to a local zoo.) The potentates of petdom may well be the 65 dogs whose meals and Medicare are assured by the will of Quaker State Oil Heiress Eleanor Ritchey; she left them $14 million and a 180-acre pad in Deerfield Park, Fla. The dogs may dwindle, but their canine capital does not: the dogs are now worth $123,278 apiece...
...story's rather inconsistent mysticism stumbles into sentimentality once or twice, but Donen makes even that seductive. He has made no attempt to mimic Saint-Exupéry's eloquent line drawings. Instead, he has some of them reproduced when the pilot does sketches on a note pad for the Little Prince. It is an act of friendly homage that devotees of the book will like as much as Donen's fidelity to the fragile spirit of the original. He has in fact pulled off a rather difficult challenge. The visual style of the film is lush...
...without a stitch on. Later, as president-elect of the American Bar Association in 1971, he met with Nixon for an hour. "Nixon was eager to discuss matters and be of help," recalls Jaworski. "I can see Ehrlichman yet, sitting right next to him taking notes on a yellow pad." It was a good meeting...
...apartment building in a Chicago suburb are trying to stretch their combined income of some $30,000 by going in together on a town house. Having set aside enough money to make a 30% down payment, they are searching for a mortgage to cover the rest of their new pad's $69,000 purchase price...