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Crabmeat for Vasya. The government has tried and abandoned a succession of incentive plans. When waiters got a percentage of each individual check, they pushed vodka at the expense of food, despite a government campaign against alcoholism. Last week the government tried again with a new plan permitting waiters to...
"Worst Since Custer." News of the failure of TV3 was flashed out around the nation and the world. Impact: shock, scorn, derision. Almost instantly the U.S.'s tiny, grounded satellite got rechristened stallnik, flopnik, dudnik, puffnik, phutnik, oopsnik, goofnik, kaputnik and-closer to the Soviet original-sputternik. At the...
Unfortunately, Dreyer's defects are almost as spectacular as his virtues. If he is passionately true to himself, he can also be childishly subjective: his conception of the Christ (Preben Lerdorff Rye), for instance, is simply silly. And at times he is pointlessly rude to his audience. It is...
Only three days after the Conservative Party's upset victory in Canada last week (see THE HEMISPHERE) one of the country's biggest magazines, Maclean's (circ. 516,587). came out with an editorial postmortem on the election results. "The mysterious and complicated and precious and precarious...
In telling the doleful tale of the Drones, Keats examines many aspects of the new phenomena of these sprawling subdivisions. He finds little that is cheery. In a patriotic fervor, the country endorsed the idea that every veteran was entitled to own his home, and the resulting pieces of Federal...