Word: carte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shield, the big change in super-marketing is not in functional display, but in new lines. To a conventional grocery in Keansburg, N.J.. Shield is now building a 20,000-sq-ft. addition that will sell only nonfood items. With one shopping cart the housewife can move from hardware to florist, from drugs to dry goods. In addition to women's and children's inexpensive clothing, the Keansburg store will offer cameras, costume jewelry, fishing rods, toasters, even outdoor lawn furniture. Five years from now, says Shield, every new supermarket will be a small department store; round...
...serves as Bhutan's capital. So rugged are Bhutan's passes and so formidable its mountains that the Indian government's political agent makes the trip to Punakha only once every three years. In Bhutan there is not a single wheeled form of transport-no bullock cart, not even a bicycle. Everything in Bhutan is carried along bridle paths by mules. Bhutan has no electricity, no roads, no factories, no industries, no movies. And there are no cities, only clusters of farmhouses surrounded by rice and wheat fields. When trouble occurs in some corner of the kingdom...
...open their ears and imagine that they were back in the good old days of 1948. Arriving in Des Moines for Iowa's Jackson Day dinner, that self-styled "political has-been," Harry Truman, grinned happily at the sight of a team of midget mules hitched to a cart that bore the sign "Welcome, Harry. Give 'Em Hell." Said he: "I never did give 'em hell. I just told them the truth and they couldn't stand...
...again as he scans the morning papers. Soon he is dictating orders, directives and notes to his black-haired wife, her typewriter propped on a suitcase beside the bed. Before he is dressed, cars come honking down a narrow street usually disturbed only by the clump of a cart or a delivery boy's whistle, and men in leather coats and caps, or in ill-fitting tradesmen's suits, knock on the door of the big red brick house. A grocer who is now a Deputy of France lets them in, where they find their leader munching...
...extravaganza. The turning point seems to come after Roderick, gurgling, "Wenches, laughter, song! That's what we need around this old castle," sends his men out to scour the countryside. In an amusing take-off on Western posse scenes the King's men roll about the land picking up cart-loads of wenches. The cameras linger on the wenches, and good clean medieval escapades soon outdo their parody; after this, The Court Jester becomes a one-man show. Since the man is Danny Kaye, one of him is enough...