Word: ifornia
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...fringe of Western civilization. In playlet No. 1, two divorced ex-writers get together to discuss dividing the spoils: their 17-year-old daughter. Hannah (Tammy Grimes) has the true verbal grit of New York City and is a senior editor at Newsweek. William (George Grizzard) basks in Cal ifornia as a contented Polo Lounge liz ard. They both shoot from the quip. Al though William is defensive, he has the punchiest line: "New York is not Mecca - it just smells like...
...Boston, Foley's of Houston and Goldsmith's of Memphis, has built so many suburban stores that last year, for the first time, branch sales exceeded those of big downtown stores. In 1964, in its latest acquisition move, Federated took over Bullock's of Cal ifornia, which includes I. Magnin & Co., a Bullock subsidiary with 20 stores that set styles all over the state-even in sophisticated San Francisco...
...question goes, is it art? James A. McCray, chairman of the art department at the University of Cal ifornia in Berkeley, describes derelict sculpture as "unusual - but legitimate in every sense of the word." Says one local artist, John McCracken, 29: "I'm amazed at the quantity of works that has arisen out of the nothingness that was there before." Most amazing is that they are there at all, unpretentious products of a leisurely society, which prove that some waste has taste. The mayor of Emeryville did not even know the sculptures were there until a few days...
...Philippines, Hawaii, the Canal Zone. It was claimed that a city of 100,000 could subsist on these foreign meat purchases, which exceeded 6,500,000 Ib. per year. Other provender which the Army & Navy have been buying in part abroad included beans, cereals, dairy products. The Cal- ifornia Cattlemen's Association pointed out that Hawaiian beef was being dumped on the Pacific coast, adding to the surplus and depressing prices, because the Army & Navy insisted upon importing their meat for troops in Hawaii from British possessions in the South Pacific twice as far from Hawaii...
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