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...signs came. The mercurial Rumanians, whose Latin origins may have instilled a certain coolness toward Slav ic influences, swept the box office clean of tickets for the Californians' two concerts. The black market became so brisk that scalpers were buying from each other, and at one concert, 600 crashers forced their way in. The next night the Russians played; there were enough empty spaces in the hall to drive a tractor around in, and the crowd dwindled further at intermission. It wasn't that Conductor Kiril Kondrashin had given a poor concert; it was just that the exuberance...
...foremost developers of self-contained retirement villages, was forced to suspend sales and refund some down payments recently at four of his "Leisure World" communities in Maryland, New Jersey and California. To reduce his heavy land-carrying costs, he is also trying to sell the developments. Despite brisk business (1,000 houses and 600 rental units in five years), Joppatowne, Md., a 1,400-acre community near Baltimore, ran out of cash this spring; and Developer Leon Panitz filed for a bankruptcy reorganization...
...Sofar proved not so good. When a demolition crew opened her sea cocks, the unmanned R.L.S. drifted out of sight before a brisk sou'easter and lingered for 16 hours instead of disappearing from radar screens in four hours, according to schedule. Where she finally came to rest, nobody is quite sure, and the waterlogged hulk of the R.L.S. is almost "transparent" to sonar blips used to locate submarines. But it seems likely that she lies in about 3,500 ft. of water-not deep enough to activate the fuses. Because the added pressure of a vessel passing overhead...
...bicycle rim linings made of woven paper, which bike-happy Danes found would save wear on tires, paper hammocks, one of the first pressure cookers to appear in Europe, even a skillet with special grease-catching depressions to improve frying of steaks. That lowly item has been cooking up brisk sales in Denmark and seven other countries for more than 15 years...
...workers employed for a full year's production. It was an example set by my father and brother." Though 50% unionized, D. & H. Cohen Ltd. has never had a strike. Quality standards are Scottishly rigid. One West Indian store, which asked for low-priced kilts, received the typically brisk reply: "This is not in our line of production...