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...decor of Joyce Chen's shows an admirable lack of ostentation, and functions as a pleasant setting for a pleasant meal, not a flagrant melange of colors and quasi-Oriental art junk. "We decided that, even though we couldn't get real ornaments from Communist China, we wouldn't use the fake decorations of many Chinese restaurants," Mrs. Chen explains. "No dragons...
...mighty extravagant spenders among them. Italy had its 2,000,000 unemployed -and its rich who escape honest taxation. Wealthy Actress Gina Lollobrigida made the headlines last week by reporting a taxable income of only $18,583 for 1957, but she was only the prettiest rather than the most flagrant practitioner of a well-established Italian habit...
...enemy for hours with his trick judo neck-chop, also has a vicious knee uppercut that comes close to decapitating downed adversaries. Diamond's most amazing talent is his ability to keep his fedora on, no matter how violent the battle. His worst quality seems to be his flagrant affection for fat fees -a penchant that his fellow sleuths seldom flaunt so openly...
...representatives of the Seattle police department and the Seattle Urban League have been conducting a survey of Negro crime, in order to develop programs of rehabilitation and prevention. Northern communities have to shed their finger-pointing and false pride, and realize that they too have a responsibility for correcting flagrant racial situations, particularly in housing...
...Invasion? To Fairbanks, Morse President Robert H. Morse Jr., who licked Silberstein in the proxy war, the heavy buying seemed a new Penn-Texas invasion. Fortnight ago, Morse angrily charged Penn-Texas with "flagrant" contempt of the Federal Court that ordered Silberstein to stop trying to take over F-M for five years. Since May, said Morse, Silberstein has bought "some 132,000" additional F-M shares "with the intent and desire of acquiring control," now owns at least 44.4% of the Chicago equipmentmakers' outstanding stock. Morse also charges that sale of the Penn-Texas holdings to another company...