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...called 7½?, hired writers and composers, then went out to raise cash in backers' auditions staged in the living rooms of friends. While four chorus girls warbled songs, Prince recited the story line and passed around a fifth of Scotch, a bag of potato chips and a ballpoint pen for prospective angels. From 164 investors, he raised $250,000 for the show-The Pajama Game. It is still playing on the road, so far has earned $1,850,000. Prince has never since had to worry about backers...
Singer decided that the ballpoint pen had become so common that Scripto's $1.98 model was overpriced, abolished it in favor of a wider-selling...
...Americans were dead. Embassy Stenographer Barbara Robbins, 21, who had come to Saigon from Denver six months before, died at her desk, a ballpoint pen still clutched in her hand. Navy Storekeeper 2/C Manolito W. Castillo, 26, a clerk at the embassy, was killed in the doorway of the building when the bomb exploded. Three Saigon policemen were blown to bits. In all, 22 persons, most of them innocent Vietnamese pedestrians, were killed, and 190 were hurt. The motor-scooter driver had raced out of the blast area, was shot twice and arrested by pursuing police. He claimed...
...dresses, drives to town or goes out on the town pays the taxes, which generally vary from 5% to 10%. Among the taxed items: household appliances, cameras, sporting goods, autos and auto parts, stock transfers, motor fuel and lubricants, telephone bills, office machines, electric light bulbs, mechanical pencils and ballpoint pens, cabaret tabs, theater and sports admissions. As a means of regulation, as much as a source of revenue, heavy taxes are also slapped on gambling, pinball machines, tobacco and alcohol: $10.50 per gallon of liquor, $9 per barrel of beer, 8? per pack of cigarettes...
...move to cut others has developed powerful support. The most talked-about possibility is a reduction of $1 billion to $3 billion that would remove many taxes that have become obsolete. It would probably include, among others, the tariffs on such modern necessities as luggage, telephone calls, toiletries and ballpoint pens...