Word: carding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Johns Hopkins File (ABC, 11:30-12 a.m.). A relaxed look at the origins of such yuletide customs as the carol, the tree, the card, backed up by the 60-voice Johns Hopkins Glee Club...
...CREDIT CARD REVOLT is growing among restaurateurs, who protest clubs' 7% fees. Seattle eating places are adding 5% to bills charged on credit cards. Idea has been adopted by Wisconsin's restaurant association; similar moves are afoot in San Francisco, Manhattan, Baltimore...
...Salon de Honor of Chile's National Congress Building, a room Chileans prize as a symbol of the system of representative democracy, a fanatic crowd of card-carrying Communists last week packed every inch of floor and gallery space. Wildly they cheered a group of leaders who promised to "make pacts even with the devil" to achieve their goal: the end of Chile's democracy. Legalized since last August, the Communist Party had come up from underground to meet in the open for its Eleventh National Congress. Cried El Diario llustrado: "It is a shame that the Reds...
...democratic custom, this was their right. Bouncing back with more zest than politicos thought possible, Chile's Reds proved that they had not slept during their decade of banishment. Each of the 300 delegates who met to choose their new leaders and reaffirm old lines represented 100 militant card carriers with three years of paid-up dues. With a new batch of young recruits, the party boasted 55,000 members...
...such moments-when he throws all social and philosophical considerations to the winds and concentrates on building up the exquisitely precarious card house of a complex gag-Comedian Tati seems the funniest funnyman now at work in films. The trouble is that Tati is not content to be merely a comedian. He has developed all sorts of crypto-Chaplinesque rationalizations about the deeper significance of Monsieur Hulot-"modern man ... at the mercy of objects . . . enmeshed by circumstances." The film, as a result of these lucubrations, is at least half an hour too long, and in the length it fails...