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Mimi likes red. So Brook Hollow is red this night. Hundreds of red and white balloons. Huge sprays of red gladiolas. The tablecloths are red, as are the matchbook covers with MIMI emblazoned on them. So too are the rubies surrounded by diamonds in Mimi's necklace and earrings. Neiman-Marcus allowed Mimi the run of the jewelry department to borrow anything she wanted for her ball. "It was real special," she admits...
...LATER, Liddy was sitting in the executive office of a New York publishing house. A publishing executive across the desk was shaking his head emphatically. Liddy clearly looked disappointed but remained calm. From the left breast pocket of his leisure suit he drew a small white candle and a matchbook. Holding a match to the candle base, he melted it until the candle stuck firmly upright on the desk. Then he lit the wick...
...Tuition: $300 each; $450 per couple. If the Shelter Institute had a printed catalogue, that is how its one course entry might read. Located in the shipbuilding city of Bath, Me. (pop. 9,679), Shelter has a curriculum that could be outlined on a matchbook cover. If it had commencement ceremonies, its new graduates would probably sport construction helmets and carpenters' aprons instead of caps and gowns. Yet they leave knowing how to do something that most Americans only dream about doing: build a house...
Business Exchanges (PBXs) or Computerized Business Exchanges (CBXs). Though the computer phones look much like their pushbutton predecessors, matchbook-size integrated circuits have now replaced the mechanical moving parts, including bells, springs and gears, that made the old ones so heavy...
...moments of doubt (which is to say most of the '60s), Melish calms himself by meditating on the contents of his wallet. There is a secret-society pin, a silver matchbook from his wedding and-not to be believed-a condom. Melish is a clear case of arrested development, a closet sentimentalist carrying a cherished artifact of his hot-to-trot days at a time when everyone else seems to be in full gallop...