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...front pages of the U.S. press and, after a parade or two, almost dropped from view. In Maine, the Portland Press-Herald paid fond front-page homage to a resident who had celebrated his 100th birthday; in San Francisco, the Examiner hoisted one of its favorite banner headlines: S.F. MERCHANT SLAYS BRIDE IN LOVE NEST. In New York, the World-Telegram & Sun bannered an example of typical Communist behavior (REDS SPY ON U.S. A-TESTS), and the Post reported a typical episode in the life of a movie star (ROZ RUSSELL ROBBED OF 100G IN GEMS...
This week, 20 years later, Fujita is setting out to visit Oregon again. This time, Fujita, now 50 and a hardware merchant near Tokyo, is coming by invitation. Brookings (pop. 2,632), the nearest town to the Oregon forests that Fujita bombed, has never forgotten its wartime distinction. The town's Junior Chamber of Commerce is raising $3,000 to bring Fujita, along with his wife Ayako and English-speaking son Yasuyoshi. 25. The Fujitas will participate in a crab feast, an outdoor church service, the annual Azalea Festival parade. They may even fly over the azalea-speckled forests...
Giving out the stamps that procure these delights inevitably represents an added cost to the retailer-a cost that somebody has to pay. The stamp companies argue that in most cases stamps bring in enough extra sales to allow the merchant to absorb the cost himself without raising his prices to customers. But the nation's biggest stamp distributor, New York's Sperry & Hutchinson...
...picture begins, the family arrives for the summer at its seaside estate in California. Father Harrington (Jack Hawkins), an immigrant boy who came up the hard way in the furniture business, is a narrow-eyed, loud-mouthed merchant who slaps his lips together when he eats, picks his teeth elaborately when he's done, thinks TV is the greatest thing since the sofabed, and looks uneasy when people talk about Sophocles' Electra-he figures maybe it's an airplane or something. Mother Harrington (Rosalind Russell) is a charming monster of self-deception who married father because...
...while, Per&243;n built his dream of world power for Argentina. With war-built exchange reserves of $1.6 billion, he bought the telephone system, the decrepit British railways, plus endless equipment for such enterprises as a battery factory, a merchant marine, airlines, petrolieum refineries, motorcycle factories. He subsidized wheat and meat for workers' tables, de-emphasized them as exports unbefitting a modern industrial nation. Everyone, high and low, sizzled steak for lunch...