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Artificial Ocean. The keeper of a saltwater aquarium is to an ordinary tropical-fish fancier what a Ferrari man is to a Chevy driver. Marine specimens are hard to get, harder to keep, expensive to feed, and demanding of space, time and attention. But they are the most strangely marked and wonderfully colorful creatures on earth-so brilliant that they seem to glow with their own light, making fresh-water tropicals look drab. This is one reason why there are some 250,000 private marine aquariums in the U.S. today, ranging in size from 21 gallons to 50 gallons, while...
According to the poem, Stalin is only pretending to be dead. "Inside his grave," cries Evtushenko, "I envisage a phone" whose wires lead to Albania's Strongman Enver Hoxha. In a clear allusion to Rose-Fancier Vyacheslav Molotov, the poem says that some of Stalin's other heirs "prune roses in retirement, and secretly consider retirement only temporary." Some secret Stalinists "curse Stalin from the podium; but then, by night, they long for the old days." To foil their ambitions, Evtushenko pleads...
...thick leather case. It is jammed with scores of photostatted cards, about the size of a playing card. containing in miniature all the latest vital statistics on G.M. and the auto industry, as well as basic figures about the gross national product and foreign trade. (A wine fancier, Donner also has in his pocket file a card listing the vintage years...
...will take a fairly "posh" word-fancier to pay $47.50 for the economy edition. Prices for buckram and India paper scrape the empyrean. Once, the Webster's Unabridged had the advantage of cheapness over the O.E.D., but now it can vaunt nothing but its relative portability...
...trade, and they sometimes seemed to be offering 25% off for rudeness. Big discounters such as the East's E. J. Korvette, Inc., New York's Friendly Frost chain, and Chicago-based Goodman's Community Discount Stores are opening new branches with piped-in music and fancier displays to shuck off "that warehouse look," adding such customer lures as charge accounts and home delivery. In the eight-story branch he will soon open on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, Korvette's Eugene Ferkauf will sell the usual discounted appliances and lower priced clothing in one part...