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...helping to free America from bugs." Nabisco offers grocers a cardboard kit that unfolds into a display stand-for Nabisco items-stamped "1776 Bicentennial 1976." The kit is called, appropriately, "Profit-Builder No. 1-W." Baskin-Robbins sells "Red, White 'n Blueberry" ice cream cones; a Boston massage parlor offers a Bicentennial special (the regular-er, services for a 10% discount); and Toy-Tex Novelty Co. provides Bicentennial litter bags with Betsy Ross's flag stamped on them...
...national palace in Quito and force the resignation of roly-poly President Rodriguez (known informally to his countrymen as el Bombita, or the little balloon), who has been Ecuador's benign, reformist dictator since leading a successful military coup in 1972. Setting up headquarters in a funeral parlor, the two rebel generals marshaled their forces, which consisted of 150 soldiers and six ancient U.S. Army tanks. The tanks are so old that one Ecuadorian general, upon returning from the U.S. recently, complained that there was one on display at the military museum in Fort Leavenworth, Kans...
...judge by such tangible measurements as health, the best of times for most people would thus he within the lifetime of people living today-that is, sometime during the 20th century. But when precisely? Here the answer becomes more subjective, a parlor game in which anyone is entitled to his own answer, so long as he remembers that the criterion is not just when his own fortunes or his own prospects were most favorable. In their own lives people are apt to choose, in retrospect, their young adult years. Perhaps this is why some people even fondly remember the Great...
...statements are abundant, and its little morals are taken from the traditional lore of a capitalist society, Xaviera finally builds up a large, bustling establishment and becomes so caught up in running the business that I lost touch with my customers." We see her wandering forlornly through her crowded parlor, where no one has time to talk to her, trailing listlessly upstairs, and falling asleep at her desk, 'too tired to join my own Christmas party." Just in case anyone out in the audience is beginning to get cynical about all this good luck and jollyness, we are shown that...
...wife, he spotted a sign on a Lexington Avenue third-floor window: LIVE NUDE MODELS. That was when Talese, a lapsed Catholic of conventionally moralistic upbringing, suddenly realized that the sexual revolution had landed almost literally at his doorstep. Next day he walked back alone for his first massage-parlor massage...