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...Cousin Gillis. Meanwhile, Mrs. Blanche Long -Earl's widow and Russell's aunt by marriage-says that she will manage the campaign of a third candidate, not related, Louisiana's Public Service Commissioner John McKeithen. Come primary time next December, the kissin' cousins are apt to be all puckered...
...hairdo, women suffered a serious loss of stature. They were told by reassuring hairdressers that it was more chic to be close-cropped, and advised by the fashion magazines simply to develop a longer neck to offset the loss in head height. But women, who like old tenements are apt to crumble at the very concept of major renovation, found a more gradual way of making do. Where once there had been hair, let there...
Clients pay Willmark from $21 to $750 monthly per store for its services and its many pamphlets, which offer inspirational selling tips to employees and dire cautions to management. Though a sign on every cash register warns salespeople that Willmark is apt to prowl the store at any time, employees seldom spot the professional shoppers. Willmark hires only "ordinary-looking people," bans flashy blondes or conspicuous Don Juans. Its shoppers earn only $60 a week and expenses, but the job is much sought after, since it involves the pleasure of being paid to buy anything from expensive whisky to diamonds...
...other mystical hand, leave enough doors locked for a long enough time and people are apt to suspect that there is nothing there worth hiding-except maybe an industrious pressagent...
...compensation, one U.S. State Department official says: "A lot of times we have to be happy with anything we get." Only the more mature nations are apt to pay up. Brazil intends to nationalize five refineries that it identifies as being U.S. financed, promises to pay a fair price for all expropriated properties. Mexico, after its costly oil expropriations in the '30s, now shuns such crude methods, instead is enforcing "Mexicanization" laws and decrees that call for the sale to Mexican citizens of majority capital in many foreign-owned industries. The U.S. Congress last year wrote the Hickenlooper Amendment...