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...called in Soviet tanks to crush the revolution. Finding that a lighter yoke yields greater economic prosperity and less political opposition, he has given key managerial jobs to nonparty technicians-and fired inefficient Red bureaucrats. In Budapest coffeehouses the twist has given way to the bossa nova and the Madison. Restrictions against travel have been lifted; last year 6,000 Hungarians were allowed to take trips to the West, a 400% increase over 1961, even though the frontier with Austria is still studded with minefields...
...Madison Avenue certainly has its work cut out with such poor consumer loyalty. THEODORE LIFTMAN Canton, Mass...
Just for good measure, I'll mention some more incidents. A couple of weeks ago, someone (we don't know who) shot at our office at 504 South Madison. The bullet went through the window on the front door and lodged in the back wall. One of our workers was in the office, but he wasn't hit. Joe Ann Christian, a 15-year old girl who has been arrested 13 times in demonstrations, was recently put through the following ordeals: she was dragged and picked up and dropped several times on the way to the police station, placed behind...
...There is a Marlborough Galleria d'Arte in Rome, and next year there will be a branch of Marlborough in Cologne. In New York carpenters and plasterers are busy converting one entire floor-all 11,000 sq. ft. of it-of an office building on 57th Street and Madison Avenue into what will be known as the Marlborough-Gerson* Gallery...
...There is a recent book called Fine Food, Wine, and Pickled Pine, for example, which is subtitled "The Story of Coventry Forge Inn" and contains a chapter headed "Our Recipes-Haute and Not so Haute." The negative approach is big these days. Holt, Rinehart & Winston has put out The Madison Avenue Cookbook "for people who can't cook and don't want other people to know it." It advises readers to boast that they can "cook the pans off practically everybody" and contains recipes for "Status Stew" and "Stuffed Softsell Crab." Also in bookshops is something called...