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...will get to go into Saks and watch a fluffy, fur-covered, fifty-year-old divorcee hand lots of green across the counter. The more she pays and the smaller her purchase, the happier we can be. That proves that she has almost conquered need for good. Just a little, ever so little more and it will be done. Ten million trillion zillion dollars for a jeweled silk-and-leather nail file case. Phew! We're almost there. Very soon we'll never need anything more ever again. We have solved necessity and in those very stores, the richest...
...Comportment rejects the legend that the North American Indian could not hold his firewater. More typically, he had to be coaxed at first even to sample it. A tribe would cautiously nominate its oldest-and therefore most expendable-member to take the first sip. Daniel Harmon, a 19th century fur trader whose journal is extensively quoted, reported that as often as not, alcohol had a tranquilizing effect on the Indian initiates. "I had rather have 50 drunken Indians in the fort," he wrote, "than five drunken [French] Canadians." Indeed, the wild and murderous debauches attributed to Indians can be readily...
...worry where his next oil well is coming from. At 43, he is a big bear of a man-6 ft. 3 in., 230 lbs.-with the hard blue eyes of a riverboat gambler. He has a strong _ fondness for the trappings of success: custom-built limousines with fur upholstery, nine airplanes, 3,000 pairs of cuff links (many of them solid gold) and homes in Denver, Hawaii, Palm Springs and Manhattan. His ranch outside Granby, Colo., encompasses 400 acres, has guesthouses that accommodate 120 people, a shooting gallery and a beauty parlor. What else could a man wish...
...assessments from Moscow were bolstered by Correspondents William Mader in Vienna and Benjamin Cate in Bonn. In Washington, Correspondents Jerry Hannifin and John Mulliken drew extensively on U.S. Government sources; in New York, our Russian desk added fur ther expertise. The actual stories were put together under the di rection of Senior Editor Ronald Kriss. The piece on Russia's political and socio-economic climate was written by William Doerner, while David Tinnin completed the mosaic with the report on the military...
Exterminators. The guano bats of Mexico and the U.S. Southwest prefer caves, where their bodies carpet the walls and ceilings in quivering fur and leatherous membrane. Their droppings provide one of the world's richest fertilizers. The air in guano caves is stifling. Miss Leen recalls having once been overcome by the ammoniated atmosphere, but not before taking some unusual baby pictures...