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...does Manila (pop. 1,300,000), where the polarities of the nation are reflected in microcosm. Sprawled on both sides of the sluggish Pasig River, the city straddles a grey-green current that carries both sewage and water lilies into Manila Bay. Many of its streets are potholed; rats chitter behind the wainscoting of its finest restaurants; street urchins peddle everything from lottery tickets to fragrant sampaguita garlands ?all at outrageous prices. The current craze requires shops to have a D apostrophe preceding the English names, as in D'Artland Gallery, D'Elegant Theater, D'Stag Cocktail Lounge...
...think of a minute when he isn't doing something constructive, speaking, writing, hiking or putting up storm windows." Hiking was the toughest part: "I'm all right for an hour or so, then I get tired." Added Joan brightly: "There is too much chitter-chatter about age these days...
...spent on national advertising and on TV, so little for the local tie-in campaigns that nail down sales. Some of the ill feeling even brushes off on topnotch TV Saleswoman Betty Furness. Snapped a Seattle dealer: "She condescends to women, talks down to them. Maybe her kind of chitter-chatter goes good on Park Avenue but not in Seattle, Washington...
Frank Sinatra, long troubled about the "millions of people listening in" who have been irritated by the squealing of his fans, finally discovered how to keep the girls from chitter-barking. "I . . . tried everything-talking to them, reasoning with them-but still they squealed," so, he said, he decided to ban all applause till the end of the broadcast, and the faithful obeyed...