Word: homelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such fringes are most generous in West Germany, where companies lavish benefits on the lowliest employees as well as on the highest executives. A manufacturer passes out free opera tickets. Brewery hands carry home two to four liters of beer every day; slaughterhouse workers are entitled to half a side of pork each month. Employees of the Reemtsma cigarette company get 30 free packs of cigarettes a month-which they often sell...
...most generous expense account for nocturnal diversions. A government survey found that in 1967, Japanese businessmen spent $1.4 billion on nontaxable "official entertainment." The 1,140 bars along Tokyo's Ginza depend on the free-spending businessman, who likes to do his entertaining away from wife and home. If it were not for the golden fringes, the main streets of Tokyo-and many other great cities-would be dull indeed after dark...
...public courses get very crowded during the weekends, but are relatively open on all weekdays except on Tuesdays, Ladies' Day on almost every course in the country. The Colonial in Lynnfield is the best. Located on route 128, it used to be the home of "Hole in One," a local golf show. It's in good shape, and the rates are reasonable...
Last is the Pleasant Valley course in Sutton, home of the Kemper Open, New England's major professional golf tournament. Pleasant Valley has one out-standing feature--its greens, which range up to 15,000 square feet, larger than the main dining hall at the Freshman Union...
...those other seven colleges. But the Ivy Guide is just the come-on without the twisted ironic smile. And if, as the authors admit, the idea was dreamed up over whisky sours at the Pudding, then the book must have been written much later that night on the way home...