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...settling whether a bra should be required, the court recommended that the Army pay $21,000 in retribution, unemployment benefits, court costs and taxes. The Army, in a tacit admission that the affair had grown out of proportion, accepted the settlement. "I don't know what the whole fuss is about," said Miss Nelson. "I never go without a brassiere. It's not my style...
...fuss now about sugar...
Back in the '50s, there was a fuss over a brainwashing technique known as subliminal communication. A movie theater found that if its films included tiny blips of commercials for popcorn and soda -moving past so quickly that the viewer did not consciously realize he was seeing them-popcorn and soda sales went up. These results were highly uncertain, though, and the technique was abandoned. Since 1957 it has been against FCC policy to permit subliminal techniques on television. Last month, however, the agency made an emergency exception...
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend him your ears. After almost 20 years of yearning to play Shakespeare, Richard Dreyfuss got his big chance in The Goodbye Girl, portraying an outlandishly gay Richard III -the King as a queen. This time, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Drey fuss is playing Shakespeare straight: he is Cassius to George Rose's Julius Caesar. Dreyfuss, who has a hankering to be a history teacher, has thought a lot about his roles. Richard III, he feels, was one of the most wonderful of English Kings and needs rehabilitating. As for Cassius...
...sold stock at $1 a share to start Control Data in Minneapolis in 1957. Last year the company had sales of $2.3 billion, and its profits rose by 42%. But Chairman Norris at 66 is doing much more than adding to his millions. While other people merely fret and fuss about hard-core unemployment, this plain-talking engineer is taking long risks to create jobs for people who had felt left behind and shut out by the system...