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...speak their own peculiar abbreviations and jargon. As soon as the press plane takes off liquor flows freely from the substantial supply aboard at all times. When the plane touches down at each stop, the members of the press applaud gently in what has become almost a folk custom...
...Languages. The firm is unconcerned if discounters ogle Mrs. Macy: it generally meets their prices on hard goods, including appliances. Though Macy's still pushes its own brands at roughly 10% less than major national brands, it also stocks more national brands. Macy's keeps customers loyal by recognizing a trend toward more spending on services and offering services that discounters lack. It has a theater-ticket agency, a travel service and a currency-exchange post for foreign travelers, also offers all kinds of custom services: Macy's will remodel houses, restring tennis rackets, make up hooked...
West Virginia puts on a demonstration of glass blowing; Montana has a trainload of Western collector's items, including an invitation to a hanging, Calamity Jane's thundermug, and Buffalo Bill's silver-handled toothbrush. Alaska has brought in Chilkat Indians to custom-carve totem poles (at $100 a running foot). General Cigar offers a magic show. Indonesia demonstrates shadow puppets, Oregon runs a lumberjack carnival, Polynesia sells chunks of fresh sugar cane. Socony Mobil tests your reflexes in a simulated driving-hazard test. Sinclair Oil has a forest of dinosaurs, and the Scott pavilion boasts...
...what might strike them if they did anything. So they do nothing. "I think it's terrible what's happening down here. If a man can pay for the meal, why shouldn't he eat at the same lunch counter with me? Really, I was brought up in this custom, you know, but I just feel like I'm sinning every time I sit in a citizen's council meeting and don't say what I feel. Those meetings aren't helping anybody. I wish I knew what I could do about...
...what might strike them if they did anything. So they do nothing. "I think it's terrible what's happening down here. If a man can pay for the meal, why shouldn't he eat at the same lunch counter with me? Really, I was brought up in this custom, you know, but I just feel like I'm sinning every time I sit in a citizen's council meeting and don't say what I feel. Those meetings aren't helping anybody. I wish I knew what I could do about...