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Contacted at his New York City home last night, Rothko said that he had agreed to do the murals only on the grounds that they be accepted without payment. "This is the first time I have been able to deliver commissioned work that I am satisfied with," he said. None of his work has ever been displayed at Harvard before...
...order. But American Airlines President C. R. Smith contended that he had telegraphed an order four days earlier, and Pan American's Juan Trippe argued that he, too, had ordered planes before TWA. TWA, at least, was first to send along a check, as a $600,000 down payment on six planes. Only later did Pan Am send a check and American offer to. The only one of the four airline executives who refused to join the scramble was United's Pat Patterson, who dismissed the whole thing as "a lot of expensive publicity...
...They meet in Malaga, two gay young things who propose to live happily ever after on their ill-got gains. After all, he reassures her, they haven't really committed a crime; they have simply enforced their rightful claim upon an insurance company that legally but shabbily evaded payment when the husband's plane crashed. But it won't wash. The heroine feels secretly guilty, and the hero is strangely changed by the experience of crime and the temptations of affluence...
Money was not the motive for Paques' espionage, though police said he took payment from "a great power in the East." He lived modestly in Paris after the war, driving a tiny white Fiat 500, attending the opera and reading Russian and Greek classics. Though he had been friendly with Russians since 1944, it was not until 1958, when he received his cosmic clearance, that he began to spy. As he puts it to his attorney today, he chose to leak secrets to Moscow because he felt that by "informing a power of whose pacifist sentiments I was sure...
...company keeps 12,000 employees voting nonunion by means of lavish stock-purchase plans and bonuses for faster work. And it keeps stockholders satisfied with monthly dividend checks (minimum check: 9? on a single share). The unique monthly payment system adds $42,000 a year to costs, but Winn-Dixie believes that it helps sales and employee relations. Says J.E.: "Our customers quite often cash their checks in our stores, and when an employee gets a dividend check at the end of each month, man, he's happy." So are the Davises, who predict that sales in the coming...