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Bubbles for Shoes. Though she turned down the cheesecake, Yvette grew gluttonously fond of her new life. By the time she was 20, she had traveled through seven countries and crossed the U.S. half a dozen times. It was all too incredibly exciting. She sang and danced the night through with genuine gypsies in genuine caves in Granada, sipped chicory coffee at dawn with stevedores on the New Orleans docks, rolled hashish in a Tangier tavern. "I taste of everything the world has to offer," she says. Her tastes run from opera and religious music to modern art, though...
...corps, there is no reason to assume that they will take the risks involved in product innovation and expansion of output. As the enormous concentration of capital in the arms industry demonstrates, these men prefer to have a demand for their product assured in advance, and are not overly fond of the fickle consumer market-place. From the corporation's point of view the priority is not one of creating jobs, but quite the opposite: maximizing profits by eliminating jobs...
Traffic down the middle of the road has never moved particularly fast nor to any great distance, but moderatism is bringing some progress to the South and with the growing influence of Southern liberals will soon bring still more. Those Southerners who are fond of saying that the last half of the twentieth century belongs to the South are aware that they are a decade behind schedule; how fast they work in making up for the last decade will to a large extent, determine the progress of the South in the coming...
...customers seldom complain. Most seek financial security rather than good looks. Women are particularly fond of men from the Benelux countries, and are especially leary of bakers, butchers and innkeepers, afraid that they will ask them to help out with the business. And how about love? "Love," sniffs one German, "is for teen-agers-and Frenchmen...
...century-old grain business had developed into the U.S.-based Continental Grain Co. with dealings all over the world. When World War II was over, Fribourg managed to bring his Paris collection across the Atlantic intact; the German general who occupied his house had evidently become so fond of the Fribourgs' chef's cooking that in gratitude he gave the collection his personal protection...