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...trouble with American programs, in addition to their sporadic, crisis-to-crisis nature, is in the source itself. Newly independent nations, jealous of their hard-won freedom, are naturally reluctant to accept help from one of the major Cold War powers. Either they accept amid misgivings and internal tensions or they cynically play off one offer against another...
...must deal with subscribers who blow apart their telephone lines by firing shotguns out the window (148 such cases in Chicago last New Year's Eve), with farmers who harvest the lines with their crops (corn-picking time is a nightmare for repairmen), with homeowners who are jealous of their picture-window view ("They come at me like a bear," says one foreman, "if they don't like where I put a pole"). He must also be ready for the occasional lonely housewife who meets him in a negligee. Rule of thumb: get out, and come back when...
...materials used in men's clothes -and 52% of the men admitted it. Wives, Du Pont noted, accompany their husbands on suit-buying expeditions about half the time, buy half the men's shirts without even bothering to take husbands along. Though low-income husbands were most jealous of their masculine rights, they submitted more to their wives' opinions than high-income husbands. Most important for Du Pont, it is the wives who are most receptive to synthetic fibers, such as Du Font's Dacron and Orion...
...James; they both require externals, techniques and, above all, the same passionate interest in the matter at hand. Your Flower Drum Song issue has all of these. The story has such accuracy, good writing and warmth that even those of us closely connected with the enter prise and terribly jealous of everything concerning it are delighted with the way it has made us look...
...outside. Personnel turnover can be high or low, but it is never stable; for one issue the Utah State Prison's Pointer News had an "Editor at Large" on the masthead after its editor in chief resigned suddenly by escaping prison. Cell-block correspondents are notoriously jealous authors, who quit in pique at the slightest editing of their copy...