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...clubs are getting into financial trouble, John Alexander, chairman of the Prince told me. Colonial club president. Bruce Hazard thinks that this sudden money problem could have come because the alumni is finding more important things to donate their money to. Twentieth century egalitarianism could be catching. If it is, the clubs, which have very large budgets, could soon fold when the alumni decide to give them less money. Colonial, for example, employs ten full-time servants, and things get very expensive...
...dinner parties where titled people were present, that he was rich enough to spend 20 golden sovereigns (today's equivalent: about $350) for a woman's favor. He mentions friends only if they went to the same brothel, and his wife only as "that woman" - a hazard to be circumvented. Sympathy goes to that lady; it is to be hoped that she came to understand that if her husband did not love her, he did not love the other 1,249 ladies either...
...with him in the regime's latest confrontation with the Roman Catholic Church. For eight long months this year, the regime fumed as the church's millennium was celebrated by millions of Poles. No sooner were the ceremonies over last month than Gomulka felt he could safely hazard his revenge. It took the form of a demand for the removal of six rectors of seminaries that had refused to submit to government inspection and control of their curriculums...
...surprising thing is not that a majority of New Yorkers now tell pollsters that they disapprove of the mayor's performance, but that only 51% of them feel that way. Unpopularity is, after all, an occupational hazard of New York mayors; even Lindsay's bland predecessor, Robert Wagner, a Democrat in a city with a 7-to-2 Democratic registration edge, had 53% of the voters against him, according to a poll taken toward the end of his third term. The high hopes built up by a fresh new face made a letdown inevitable. Lindsay was, says Wagner...
Most of the smoke is coming from filters. With only a small part of the market a decade ago, filters have been unintentionally blessed by the health-hazard debate, now account for 65% of the industry's $7 billion annual sales. Challenging the leader, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., which has the bestselling plain and menthol filters (Winston and Salem), other manufacturers are aiming for the top with new tips...