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...side in order to avoid spilling tobacco from a vertically lifted cigarette. The well-turned-out lady of Budapest buys her clothes at the shop of Klára Rothschild on winding Váci Utca, but equally handsome working-class wives do their shopping at the Great Market Hall-a vast, unheated, barnlike building where sausages and onions dangle from the beams, dung-smeared chicken eggs sell for a dollar a dozen, and delectable fish called fogas goggle stupidly from their tanks at the customers, then disappear, still wriggling, into net shopping bags...
...government, appointments to key posts. He even found time to slip away to the City Athletic Club, where he took a swim, did two sets of 20 push-ups and had a steam bath. One of his early goals as mayor is to renovate the gym in city hall-a facility rarely used during previous administrations...
...self-effacing, Li Fu-chun has been in charge of "squeezing" the peasants during the three bitter years, beginning in 1958, of the Great Leap Forward, which was aimed at giving China an industrial base greater than that of Britain. From Li's neat office in Embracing Kindness Hall-a two-story Manchu dynasty palace in Peking's Forbidden City-have poured the blueprints and directives that marshaled China's millions into antlike armies to dig canals, mine coal and iron ore, and work the soil of 24,000 spartan people's communes. It has been...
Other members of the household are the cretinous twins Bert and Mert (Peter Whitney), their loony little sister (Jean Heather) and-thanks to the toxic ministrations of mad-scientist Hall-a phosphorescent Grandma (Mabel Paige). ("I glow, don't I?" she says proudly.) By her light MacMurray reads about granddaughter Bonnie's great bank robbery; as she dies, the old lady bequeaths him the tune and its doubletalked words which-to the proper person-will reveal the hiding place of $70,000 in bank loot. After that things get a little complicated...
Superintendent of Floyd County schools today is Town Hall-a Caney Creek boy. Another is Knott County Attorney Dan Martin, whose hillbilly background has acquired a veneer that would make a Hatfield or a McCoy groan in his grave. He is a Harvard...