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...would rather you weren't seen with any of the lower echelon of employees." Harry Cohn, the caliph of Columbia Pictures, learns that Choreographer Jack Cole has pronounced a script for Ann Miller garbage. Cohn agrees, but demands, "What . . . does it matter to her? She's just a dumb broad with large thighs." Introduced to Kim Stanley, who was to be nominated for an Academy Award, Cohn asks her director, "Why are you bringing me this girlie? She's not even pretty...
Jeeps left over from the war, 1955 Chevrolets, 1953 Czech-made Skodas and armies of dilapidated jalopies jounce and judder through the broad avenues of Rangoon, Burma's capital. In the distance, red-brick Victorian steeples poke up among the golden domes of the pagodas, and along the road, great white-columned English mansions stand empty like haunted houses, their walls mildewed, their gardens overrun with weeds, moisture dripping from their eaves. In the Strand Hotel, a grand monument to colonial decay, ceiling fans turn lazily above a lost-and-found case still stuffed with pince-nez, ladies' compacts...
...weather-beaten throng of 20,000 assembled in the dusty market town of Casa Grande. Normally toiling in nearby sugarcane fields, the villagers stood in the withering heat waiting for an apparition from the sky. As a whining white air force helicopter came into view, the crowd spotted the broad, beaming face of President Alan García Pérez, waving a white handkerchief in greeting. "Alan!" thundered the crowd as the helicopter set down in a swirl of dust. "Alan! Alan...
Business groups had mixed views about the proposed changes. While companies generally favor efforts to loosen antitrust restrictions, many fear that calls for broad reforms may arouse strong opposition. Some observers were particularly wary of the provision to relax laws to allow mergers of rival firms in distressed industries. Said Joe Sims, a Washington, D.C., antitrust attorney who represents large industrial companies: "It's got to be a real lightning rod. It's going to attract a lot of controversy and criticism...
...Chicago, of course. That always clangs a national cowbell. At recurring Cub and White Sox calamities (DePaul's dependable basketball disasters are fairly localized pains), the city's slumped shoulders extend over a remarkably broad piece of the nation. But some things are not meant to be shared and, until now, the Bears have embodied most of them. No outsider is as wary of freezing conditions as a Chicagoan is proprietary of frostbite. Any Sunbelt slur is returned with a blast of icy superiority. "Bear weather," they call it. A Midwesterner's notion of comfort is plainly more profound than...