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...bells to beat 'im," admitted one Londoner. But Clay was so brash, so, well, so American ("That cripple," snorted Cassius. "I'll whup him like I was his Daddy") that Britons still paid up to 6 guineas ($17.64) for a rain-spattered seat, and raided the cooky jar to bet on Cooper (at odds ranging from 5-2 to 4-1). A 78-year-old lady even sent Cooper an embroidered pillow with a note pleading: "Knock out this Clay fellow in the first round, please...
McNamara's defenders claim that most of the heat is coming from writers who have long sympathized with the military professionals or from those professionals themselves-the men who are understandably irked by McNamara decisions that jar them out of their accustomed ways. "An awful lot of this criticism is just a result of McNamara's very effectiveness." argues one of his top assistants. Yet these assistants also are urging McNamara to take note of the criticisms and to work harder at his personal relationships. The advice seems sound, since McNamara, who still has the full confidence...
...find what the public thinks it wants. They have found, to no one's surprise, that convenience foods sell better with labels that show what the contents will look like. The public is a soft touch for reusable packages, such as the vitamin container that is an apothecary jar, the instant coffee jar that becomes a glass pitcher. Portion packaging has also become popular. Campbell Soup has expanded its Swanson TV frozen dinners to include soup and dessert in a single paper-and-foil container. Dow Chemical has developed a packet made of plastic, paper and foil that holds...
...Corbusier's first work in North America should not "jar" our world. Is our architectural world too small for this masterpiece of form? The building is designed according to man's own figure is even comforting for those willing to befriend it. For this building, unlike most others, has the humaneness of a friend. John Paul Russo...
...Soviet propaganda efforts. His most dramatic hour came in 1950 when he answered Moscow's attempt to charge the U.S. with aggression in Korea. Austin held up a Russian-made burp gun supplied to North Korean attackers, and said that Russia's complaints reminded him of a jar falsely labeled peaches. "Sir," he told the Soviet delegate, "I am in a position to let the world see what is inside-applesauce...