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...Japanese see nothing impolite about slurping soup or noisily blowing the nose or clearing the throat; the booklet warns that fastidious Westerners will recoil. There is a great difference in giftgiving: "Foreigners normally open gifts on the spot and then thank the donor. Japanese, however, thank the giver and then take away the unwrapped gift, and nobody else sees it.'' The booklet advises against mixing "Eastern and Western customs'' by simultaneously bowing and shaking hands "because it is ungraceful...
...massive stabilization loans ($100 million to Mexico, $25 million to Chile) are not meant to be spent but to give a psychological lift to a currency threatened by inflation or devaluation. But further than that Waugh will not go, or even look. "I'm a lender, not a giver," he says, and he proudly claims a default rate of less than 1%. The bank has reserves of over $600 million, and an uncommitted lending balance of more than $2 billion...
...gives about 100 speeches a year across the land?Bowles rolls his I's, manages to mention his personal experiences in high political jobs. He is also a prolific author (half a dozen books on politics and international affairs since 1954 ), magazine contributor, letter-to-the-editor writer, interview giver. To his benefit, Bowles is an intimate of most of the top candidates. The jacket of his latest book. The Coming Political Breakthrough, is alive with blurbs from Jack Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, and even Harry Truman...
...remaining $7,500,000. Sample: Fund Chairman H. Irving Pratt dropped a casual note to one alumnus who had already given $100,000, promptly got back a pledge for $100,000 more. From Manhattan, Pratt raised $50,000 with three phone calls in a single hour. One previous giver, listed as possibly good for another $5,000, plunked down $35,000. At week's end, with hundreds of other alumni giving and giving again, Harvard could see success ahead in the most massive fund campaign ever carried out by a university for the benefit of undergraduate education...
...show's high point: Carney impersonating Ed Murrow impersonating the Delphic Oracle. In the manner of Murrow's Small World program, Carney conversed with a famous Riviera party giver ("It's really been one of the most divine and decadent seasons I can recall," gurgled Hermione Gingold); a twitch-lipped Hollywood star impersonated by Edie Adams, who did her too-familiar but still funny parody of Marilyn Monroe; and a Greek shipowner (Hans Conried) who has just bought a new Picasso-"his oldest boy." Throughout, Carney kept up the authentic Murrow atmosphere of portentousness and cigarette smoke...