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...Soviet citizens-no one can tell how many-who operate private businesses for private profit, often dodging the police for years before they are caught. Operators of two of the cleverest syndicates were in the hands of the law last week, charged with running a textile empire and lipstick plant with profits that ran into the millions...
...current show, it is his enviable duty to plant long-lasting kisses on the ingenue, Bonnie Scott, but he recently turned on her with a four-letter snarl and added: "Blot your lipstick or I'll smear it all over your face." And at one final curtain, as the cast soaked up the downpour of applause, Morse turned and remarked to one and all (including 60-year old Co-Star Rudy Vallee): "Well, thev liked...
...first. William Bowman, a Jewish furniture dealer, and his wife dismissed the episodes as pranks. When swastikas were smeared in lipstick on their two-story house in San Francisco's Sunset district, they quietly wiped the marks off; when they began to get obscene telephone calls, Bowman simply hung up, saying "wrong number, wrong number." The Bowmans did not realize then that the "pranks" were only the beginning of months of terror in which their spirits would gradually decay and their happiness disintegrate under the pressure of an unseen force...
...their windows smashed by bottles; their furniture had been ruined by inpouring rain. On Nov. 6, the tires on Bowman's car were slashed, and dents were pounded into its hood and sides. The next day, the windows were smashed, and on the house was written "Eichmann" in lipstick letters 20 inches high. On March 16, a fire was set with a sulphur bomb on the fender of Bowman's car. Uncalled delivery trucks arrived from every direction. "One night," said Bowman, "we got five cabs, two tow trucks, 14 pizzas, nine chickens, enough frogs' legs...
...certain they would battle against any movement to overthrow it. They know nothing else, and to them the term 'capitalism' spells depravity and damnation." They fight only to buy more books, to write about day to day problems rather than about the romance of building Socialism, and to wear lipstick and play jazz...