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...their past was romantic. Then, in 1956, big-time oil drillers on Navajo land hit the jackpot, and the dollars began gushing in. By last week, their numbers grown to 85,000 (v. 15,000 in 1868), their treasury to $60 million, their ancient weapons supplanted by grosses of ballpoint pens, lawyers, bookkeepers, geologists, oil consultants-even a pressagent-the busy, hard-driving Navajos were pounding their chests like a lusty new nation within a nation...
...Better Ballpoint. Paper Mate brought out a ballpoint pen which writes easily on grease-smeared paper or slick surfaces that usually balk ballpoints. The pen has a new ink containing a detergent that cleanses the writing surface. Price...
Teams that once returned from abroad as wholesalers of smuggled watches, ballpoint pens and nylons are groaning to see their luggage picked over. Police no longer look the other way when athletes hit the bottle too hard. The roll of Communist sportsmen is fast becoming a rogues' gallery. Among those who have made the squad: ¶Edik Streltsov, crack center forward on the Moscow Torpedo soccer team, ignored repeated warnings and became a drunk. "When Streltsov was in the hospital," reported East Berlin's Junge Welt, "his mother brought him not fruit or books, but vodka. The doctors...
Christmas is a golden time for the manufacturers of religious articles, and they pepper the pages of church periodicals with ads. This year Christians can give their favorite clergyman a ballpoint pen with a large cross for a clip-"An Exquisite Symbol of Faith" which "will put inspiration into every word you write" during "a lifetime of faithful service." Those with "vocation-minded Catholic boys" on their Christmas lists may consider a " 'Play-Mass' Set" made of "durable white plastic fabric, with brightly colored crosses," and consisting of "chasuble, maniple, stole, glass chalice, chalice cover, three altar cards...
Time and again, as the official motorcade edged its way through Casablanca's thronged streets, the smiling guest of honor left his blue Chevrolet convertible to mingle with the cheering crowds, shake hands, pass out ballpoint pens (left over from the U.S. presidential campaign) marked "Vice President Richard Nixon." Right beside him was Pat, with hard candies and bonbons for the children. Gashed Moroccan Foreign Minister Ahmed Balafrej, whose country was celebrating the first anniversary of its independence from France: "This is unprecedented...