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Last week the 1952 Michelin went on sale. A perennial bestseller (U.S. price: $3.75), the guidebook's print order is 200,000 copies, twice as much as the prewar figure. Its 880 pages are crammed with maps and tourist information of all sorts, with special emphasis on 8,000 hotels and restaurants...
with my finger in a guidebook. When...
Last week the Office of Price Stabilization put ceilings on all used cars, by freezing them at "guidebook" (i.e., dealers' standard price) levels. Under the OPS order, if the guidebook price is higher than the new-car price, the new-car list price applies. The order is also intended to stop the practice of some dealers' driving new cars a few miles in order to call them "used," then selling them for more than the ceiling price. The only car now selling for more than list price in Detroit lots is Cadillac...
...authers of the freshman guidebook take a strong stand against untidiness. Smoking on the street and blue jeans are taboo, they warn. They rhapsodize the beauties of Radcliffe, but swoop swiftly to earth again, thusly: "Ivy walls notwithstanding, Radcliffe is an urban college. Radcliffe in the spring is lovely. The apple tree is in full bloom and the grass is green and inviting. But the Radcliffe Yard is not Coney Island. Don't sprawl about; even exam period is not an excuse for unladylike behavior...
...Ordering Communists to register with the Attorney General, he wrote, "is about as practical as requiring thieves to register with the sheriff."* And the section ordering the Secretary of Defense to list all defense plants (so Communists could be barred from them) was, said the President, like publishing a guidebook for the enemy...