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...Cairo, fountain of most of this hate, Egyptian officials hotly complained that half a dozen secret radio stations now "attack President Nasser personally in round-the-clock propaganda assaults.'' Pressed for a sample broadcast from the clandestine stations (located, say the Egyptians, on the French Riviera, in Jordan, Lebanon, British Aden, Cyprus and Kenya), the officials produced the following: "Nasser is a criminal who forcibly became the leader of his country. Nasser's gangs are never successful except in destruction, ruin and bankruptcy. Dear, sweet Jimmy Boy Nasser, a curse be upon you, a plague be upon...
Kilty is handsomely assisted by William Roberts' monumental two-story unit set, representing a corner of Venice, complete with tessellated pavement and an animal-head fountain spouting water. The wall beneath inverted-V stairways folds out to transplant us to Portia's greenery-bedecked residence at Belmont. Gilbert Helmsley, Jr. has designed some fine lighting...
...which were as much as 15% lower. Other Red bestsellers: bicycles, sewing machines and scented cotton prints. Even in strictly anti-Communist South Viet Nam, where border guards check all cars and passengers to block entry of Chinese goods from Cambodia, Saigon's counters hold China's fountain pens, records, needles, thermos bottles and textiles...
...inhabitants but more than 600 hotels, some 580 of the total 710 businesses deal solely in these gimmicky souvenirs of St. Bernadette Soubirous. Samples: neckties that glow at night with Bernadette's image, washable plastic Virgins in every size, corkscrews in the shape of Bernadette adoring the Virgin, fountain pens with peep-show Virgins in place of the usual naked woman, three-minute hourglasses embossed with Bernadette telling the Virgin how to time eggs...
Blessed Candy. Even the waters that flow from taps in the Grotto are exploited. "Go drink at the fountain and there wash yourself," Bernadette is said to have admonished after reporting that the Virgin had appeared to her in the Grotto. Merchants have not forgotten a word of it: they sell plastic bottles artfully shaped like Bernadette or the Virgin for carrying off the water, Bernadette-imprinted soap for washing in it. Other "water" items: perfume, throat lozenges, cakes and candy advertised as "made from water blessed by the Holy Father." One ad agency is talking of hiring an airplane...