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...Bartholomew was sold at Sotheby's fortnight ago for $532,000-fifth highest auction price ever paid for a painting-the buyer was Agnew's, a London art firm. But Agnew's was merely acting for Oilman J. Paul Getty, 69, who let it slip last week that he now had the masterpiece hanging in his Sutton Place mansion outside London...
...along one side of a membrane; on the other side is a solution of such salts as calcium and sodium chlorides that are naturally present in milk. If the milk contains strontium 90 atoms, they pick up positive electric charges from a current flowing through the solution. Then they slip through the membrane and lose themselves in the harmless salts. Dr. Gregor thinks that his process can extract 90% of the strontium 90 from milk at the cost of about ½? per quart. Annual cost of keeping U.S. milk reasonably safe: $230 million...
...shimmies through one sequence in a blonde wig, a few tassels, enough feathers for a sparrow's spring plumage, and not much else. Even so, Italy's Gina Lollobrigida was shocked when Hollywood's new Wax Museum unveiled a reclining likeness of her in a black slip hiked up somewhere between navel and knees. "Please, Sig-nori" pleaded La Lollo, "the short slip shows too much Gina." The museum's directors were sympathetic, but they wouldn't dream of tampering with a work of art. The patrons seem to appreciate it, they replied...
...last April, he had picked up 14% of Celotex's outstanding stock. Alas. Celotex shares began to slip-from $41.75 in March to $25 on Wall Street's Blue Monday. Since Gilbert presumably bought most of his Celotex stock on margin or had used it as security for loans to buy still more, he stood to see it sold out from under him unless he could raise more collateral. Evidently assuming that he could make restitution when the market rose again, he began writing out checks, and with remarkable ease persuaded other Bruce officers to countersign them...
...night wore on, three candidates withdrew, but Wallace stood fast, hopeful that he might become the compromise choice. Backstage, the candidates' tacticians huddled, vainly seeking deals that might break the deadlock. On the sixth ballot, Wallace began to slip. The May forces tried to get a recess until morning to gain time to persuade Wallace to with draw and throw his votes to May. Uncomfortable and hungry, the delegates in sisted with rhythmical clapping that the voting continue. On the seventh Wallace was down to 43 votes, while Alsop had 309 and May 302. Foreseeing the end, Wallace withdrew...