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Liquor is still the king of business gifts, but dozen bottle cases have been replaced by gift packaged single bottles. The same moderation seems to be spreading to the old habit of sending Christmas cards to customers and coworkers. Not surprisingly, Lockheed Aircraft Corp. will send no cards this year. Ogilvy & Mather, the advertising agency, is not distributing employee address lists within the company. Chairman Jock Elliott figures that if everyone in the agency's 755 employee Manhattan office sent every co-worker a 250 Christmas card (plus 80 postage), "we would spend $187,859.10 saying 'Season...
...surprising that Paisnel, 46, a balding, mustached man, had escaped suspicion for so long. Though he fitted the few scraps of description offered by the victims?rough hands, a habit of softly muttering "Jesus"?Paisnel was a respected businessman, husband, and guardian of several foster children. Every year, "Uncle Ted" faithfully appeared at the local orphanage, dressed as Father Christmas, I! I to hand out sweets and toys...
...face make McCloskey's appearance every bit as vehement as his presidential thrust into New Hampshire--an impassioned vendetta against the Nixon Administration. "I am just tired of being lied to by members of the executive branch and having information concealed, and I think they have fallen into the habit of lying and not just to the people and the press, but to Congress...
...Egypt's "year of decision" against Israel, and now by telling the army that the time to fight has come, is painting himself into a corner. Using another image, an old U.N. hand last week put it thus: "Sadat, like Nasser before him, has developed a habit of hanging himself on a hook and then pleading with the major powers...
...also eats dinner with them as often as possible. On Sundays he takes them to a guitar Mass at Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown, and he often scans the ads for family movies. When he is away, Kennedy calls home to talk to the children every night, a habit designed in part to assure them of his safety. Last year at Halloween, he startled his neighbors by joining the kids for the trick-or-treat rounds, dressed in a sheet...