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Artificial flowers for allergic actresses are only one use of the U.S.'s flowering bogus-blossom bloom. Imports from Italy and Hong Kong, which manufacture the bulk of the world's fake-flower output, have jumped more than 20 times since 1955. It is now a $50 million-a-year business. Of poor quality in the past, imitation lilacs, rhododendrons, geraniums, magnolias and orchids now look real enough to water-though lilies sometimes come with geranium leaves. Explains one Hong Kong exporter: "Sometimes God's product doesn't look natural enough, so we make hybrids." Some...
...persistent shrill of newspaper criticism, Premier Chang was unable to develop a base of public support, was fair game for the tough and impatient army officers. The junta wasted no time in swooping down on the rampant press, quickly outlawed 76 newspapers and 305 agencies, imprisoned 200 bogus newsmen. Chastised, the press now ventures only mild jabs at the junta and completely avoids direct criticism of Pak.* We don't think we should go too far in criticizing the military government, because keeping the business going is more important than speaking out and possibly going out of business," said...
...bogus poets first apologise...
...notably generous lot. When they review one another's work, the friction of dry skin is almost audible as they rub their hands over a colleague's failure to sustain a thesis, his reliance on a wrong date, a superseded document or, better still, a bogus one. An expert on the receiving end of this kind of abuse is famed Historian Arnold J. Toynbee. His massive, ten-volume Study of History (TIME, Oct. 18, 1954) left him vulnerable on at least two scores: 1) it became the most widely discussed history of modern times, and popularity...
...Class Committee is no longer considering handing out 10,000 bogus English diplomas, especially in the light of favorable response to the letter it has sent to about 250 influential alumni. Besides the switch from Latin to English, the letter criticizes the new printing process (in place of engraving), the lack of establishment on the 1961 diplomas, the absence of the Harvard seal, and the quality of the paper...