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...place cards, Congressmen, a sprinkling of average Americans and the President, headlining another health- care forum. The audience of 150 Kansas business owners was treated to the spectacle of the nation's President, looking every bit the Accountant in Chief, doing business math for a Mexican-restaurant owner, a flower-shop owner, an architect, a construction-company owner and a farmer. Their chief concern was how much money they personally would fork over if his plan became law. Regina Jaramillo was worried about insuring the part-timers at her restaurant. "At 7.9%," Clinton patiently explained, "then the real cost -- additional...
...pressure against the line, whipped up by Communist propaganda and a bitter winter, is growing. There are thousands like 46-year-old Marguerite Saulnier, flower-shop assistant, who says: "Of course, we must get higher wages. What's the good of talking about cutting prices by 5%? In my own store we raised prices by 10% before cutting them five. Anyway, prices would have to be halved before I could buy the proper food for my two children." And like Andre Fourgon, 28, a furniture mover from Lyons: "We ought to make up our minds about the Communists?either make...
...Contest. In St. Louis, a contest to guess how long it would take a 300-pound cake of ice to melt ended suddenly when the cake slid off a platfjorm in a flower-shop window, crashed through a plate-glass window, smashed to smithereens on the sidewalk...
...begin to understand until the evening that some Buckinghamshire beech-leaves in a Moscow Road flower-shop smelled like the rustling wood to whose edge she had often come in her autumn imagination. She went at once to live alone at Great Mop in the Chilterns. There, after some months that were not without weirdness, a starved kitten scratched her hand and her own blood sealed her knowledge that she was a witch...
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