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...years, that was all it was. Its creator, a New York printer named Frank V. Strauss, started in 1884 with a one-page flyer, pretentiously titled The New York Dramatic Chronicle, that gave theatergoers little more than the cast, inappropriate ads (CHEW WHITE'S YUCATAN GUM) and, by way of editorial fare, bad jokes ("The hen is not a cheerful fowl: it broods a great deal...
...Khrushchev's rule, glamour has become one of the Marxist virtues; the party line has caught up with the hemline. At a Moscow fashion show this summer, 9,000 people a day enviously ogled the sleek styles that so far only the mannequins were wearing. The counters of GUM, Moscow's government department store, blossomed with gaudily colored brassieres. Costume jewelry and other Western fripperies adorned new shops along Gorky Street...
...document its story of ladies in distress, the magazine assigned a team of eight women reporters to a kind of undercover investigation. According to their findings, black lingerie is so scarce that salespeople are tired of saying "no" to repeated demands. Supposedly black slips and panties delivered to GUM are only dirty brown. Why are lace trimmings so shoddy? Not enough lace or lacemaking machines. Only four factories in the country produce nonrun nylons, and the 83 stocking-repair shops in Moscow are so far behind that it may take a month to fix a pair of hose. Square-fingered...
...knew about fascism through books and movies, And here I saw it in action. Fascism stood up in my face smelling of whisky .. . Fascism was noisily chewing gum. It was sniveling covered with pimples and tow-haired...
Exports: Cotton, gum arabic. Per capita income: $95. U.S. aid (1961): $9,400,000. Africa's biggest country has made impressive economic gains, with foreign aid. Regime unlikely to step down before Seven Year Development Plan ends...