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...esthetic experience; collectors have bought millions of dollars worth of art works, often in hope that the purchase will increase in value as the artist becomes better known. Amateurs can also dabble in oil-well exploration, beef cattle, race horses, Broadway plays, foreign exchange, gold and silver and precious gems on the chance that Oliver Wendell Holmes's probable will occur...
Passionate Know-How. Jarrell's chosen theme was life made precious through knowledge of its vulnerability, and with unerring instinct he chose to express it often through the reveries of a woman -a woman who hides her deepest findings about life lest they destroy family morale. The theme is best expressed in "The Woman at the Washington...
...power to Bus Mosbacher, but knowledgeable sailors will tell you that the America's Cup race proves only that in those tricky airs and waters, we have a built-in advantage. These days there is precious little difference technologically between challenged and challengers, and until the race takes place in neutral waters, it will remain simply a trial of skill between a skipper who has spent his life on these waters and one who hasn...
Into New York's Kennedy International Airport last week flew a precious cargo-the new fall and winter styles from Paris. There to receive them were the representatives of the two New York department stores that market high-quality but inexpensive copies of European couture fashions. The arrival marked the start of one of the most hectic competitions in all of American retailing-the race to get bulging cartons of Givenchys, Cardins, St. Laurents, Diors and Balenciagas unpacked and into the hands of cutters and tailors for public showings only three weeks away...
...President Josip Broz Tito wound up a three day visit in Cairo, went on to Syria for a day, Iraq for two more days and then back to Egypt for more talks with Gamal Abdel Nasser. The mileage covered was impressive, but the cause of "peace" gained precious little ground. "The situation at present," lamented a sad Tito in Alexandria, "is an impasse." Tito had come to the Middle East with a compromise proposal calling for the Arabs to recognize Israel's right to exist as a nation and for Israel, in turn, to pull...