Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lucia, the Marlin's chattering passengers quickly pass through British customs. They pay a 50?-a-gallon tariff on the French wine in their demijohns, but none on the high-duty Martinique rum hidden in their baskets. Ashore, they barter or sell their wine and rum, then go shopping. St. Lucia has the foodstuffs that bone-poor Martinique has had to do without...
...Marlin, they uncovered hams, butter, soap, cloth, shoes and other contraband. Goods and traffickers were hustled off to the hoosegow. The women pleaded Martinique's hunger, and the police relented. Late in the day they let the Marlin sail, with a warning that next time things would go harder...
...vision Française transmits from atop the Eiffel Tower, and is housed in probably the most modern and best designed TV studio in the world. But French TV has been handicapped by one of those illogical conflicts common among the logical French. Manufacturers have refused to go into full-scale production until the government increases its program budget ($11,000 for all of 1948). The government refuses to telecast more programs until more people have sets. Result: fewer than 5,000 sets in all France. Programs include first-run movies, interviews, operas and Parisian nightclub shows (uncensored). Throughout...
...Go Salaries. Unable to agree on drafting players, the two leagues were knocking each other out in bidding for college football stars. The average salary had been bid up from $4,000 to $8,000 for a four-month playing season. There were just not enough pro football fans to support three Chicago teams or three New York teams. (New York was about to get a fourth-the National League's Boston Yanks, moving to the big city because attendance in Boston fell as low as 6,800.) And the two leagues had steadfastly failed to get together even...
Once, the two philosophers were names that made news. "Ye gods!" a nobleman of Paris exclaimed. "Everywhere I go, I hear talk of nobody but this Rousseau and this Diderot . . . People of the lowest sort, people who do not even own their own houses, who live on the fourth floor . . ." Today, except for a few scholars, people talk a good deal less about Diderot than they do of Rousseau. Students who learn of Diderot in college are apt to classify him as one of the great French Encyclopedists, learn too little of his novels, plays and essays. If they remembered...