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...Warren Pershing (that's Momo and Persh) left yesterday for Paris, Copenhagen, Athens and Istanbul. You realize now is when the really chic people go to Europe. Heaven forbid they should be part of that gauche Summer swarm who think because they have money they have everything, the innocents...
...This year 314 constitutional amendments have been introduced in the House. Ninety-eight deal with apportionment, 65 would give equal rights to women, 41 concern religion. Some of the others would establish a uniform voting age of 18, reform or abolish the electoral college, repeal the income tax, forbid federal-budget deficits except in time of national emergency, and double the two-year term of House members. Most of these also have been introduced in the Senate...
...Kremlin seems to agree, despite protests from old-line ideologues and planners. Last week Pravda blasted kopeck-pinching regulations that forbid any restaurant in Russia, from Moscow's vast Ukraina to the smallest cafe in Siberia, to spend more than $5.50 a day on soup greens. Urged Pravda: "Priority must be given to economic methods of management." The government now plans to do just that. Retail stores and restaurants in half a dozen Russian cities will be given a free hand to cut or increase sales staffs, improve displays and boost promotion budgets. "Advertising always pays," intoned Komsomolskaya Pravda...
Lawyers all agree that poor people are entitled to an attorney when they get into trouble. But how to get lawyer and litigant together? Many people do not know of their rights, and the American Bar Association's Canons forbid lawyers to solicit employment...
...first time, companies will be required to publish regular and accurate consolidated financial reports, forbid den to accumulate hidden reserves by underrating assets and overrating liabilities - a device long used to mislead stockholders...