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...stood at the end of the Gilded Age. The time is ripe for a home-grown Henry Ford to show these new industrialists how to make really big money by paying productive wages, adopting the techniques of mass production, and selling more for less. On its record of communal resourcefulness, Sao Pau'o can and should produce the man to show...
Part of the plan has been dubbed "operation Frontal Lobes," and includes programs on the history of the U.S. Navy, the trial and death of Socrates, the communal experiment of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, the physical nature of man, and special documentaries devoted to such subjects as the black market in the adoption of babies. Not all these projects may reach the TV screen, because, admits Taylor, "in this area there is a fairly high mortality among ideas...
...station to meet her except Mrs. Weston. The mayor said his wife had a cold, but gossips called it a diplomatic illness. Next day, to give gossips the lie, Mayoress Weston put on her hat, went to see Murashkina at her flat, accompanied her on a visit to the communal grave of Coventry's 1,100 blitz victims. Said Mayor Weston, hospitable to the end: "Nothing was said about Korea. What happened to John could have easily happened in Egypt or Malaya...
...friends and the English language, they asked her a personal question: Would she spy, "for her country," on all the people she knew? Panicky, Tanya eloped with a Russian movie cameraman she scarcely knew, in order to get out of town. The marriage dragged on for awhile in overcrowded communal apartments and abortion clinics, ended in divorce...
...last 17 as headmaster. All six Greene children were born in Berkhamsted; Graham was the fourth. He hated the town, but not as much as he hated the school, with its harsh stone steps, its plain pine desks, the doorless cupboards with rows of dirty gym shoes, the ugly communal washbasins...