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...much of the listening is to foreign stations. Comparably priced U.S.-made sets bring in only nearby stations, have only a limited market. U.S. businessmen find it hard to obtain Government help in export financing when private capital is not available. John Lawrence, executive vice president of Dallas' Dresser Industries (oil drilling equipment), complains that while Washington is studying an export application, Italian and French competitors can close a sale. Government aid for them is almost automatic...
...with a Rouault, a Dufy, two Renoirs, two Vlamincks; his Washington office is studded with hi-fi and Queen Anne furniture. Chalk commutes between the two places in his telephone-equipped cars (black Cadillac, white Continental), on off hours retires to his 83-ft., twin-diesel yacht. A careful dresser, he owns 70 suits (most made in Europe for upwards of $200 each) and 30 pairs of shoes (most made in Paris for $75 a pair), sports vests with lapels, blue shirts with pleats. Superstitious and a gambler, he enjoys chemin de fer and craps, jokingly claims to make many...
...Shaggy Dog (Buena Vista) of the title is a real, live, winsome, mop-footed old English sheep dog named Chiffon (real name: Sam) that opens doors and dresser drawers, climbs ladders, sits commandingly at the wheel of a speeding car, and even gargles before going to bed at night (on the sound track, anyway). Unhappily, Producer Walt Disney tells his shaggy-dog story so doggedly that he soon runs it into the pound. The story: a Renaissance ring that has the power to put a human being into the body of an animal falls into the hands of a teen...
Operations Arleigh ("Thirty-One Knot") Burke, 57, got a third term; General Thomas Dresser White, 57, got a second term as Chief of Air Staff...
...peace with liberty, peace with justice, peace with individual rights." A white dove flew up from the crowd and settled on Fidel's right shoulder. After two nights of almost no sleep, he bedded down in the Continental Suite of the Havana Hilton, his rifle tossed on a dresser...