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...Peaches & Sympathy. The lowest-keyed and slickest propagandists are the Czechs, who employ their innovative cinematic techniques for programs on the virtues of working in the peach-canning or fertilizer industries. The Czechs also have the liveliest commercials. One holiday-season spot shows the last-minute buying rush, and cuts to a popular actor looking dispiritedly into his empty wallet. Then a bleached, beehived blonde sympathizes: "Don't worry about money: buy a camera on the installment plan from Foto-Kino...
...Newest element in San Francisco's revitalized waterfront is The Cannery, another lively block of shops and restaurants across the street from Fisherman's Wharf. "I had a sense of smell," explains Leonard V. Martin, 47, a wealthy Manchurian-born lawyer, who bought the abandoned Del Monte peach cannery in 1963. Martin's nose told him that what San Francisco needed was sidewalk cafes and more offbeat shops, and, with Architect Joseph Esherick, he set out to provide them...
...with a choice of evils, the wise man chooses the lesser; that's what we have to do in Viet Nam. But let's not forget, as we make our choice, that the lives of the most successful democracies in Southeast Asia hang on our decision. PAUL PEACH Professor Faculty of Engineering University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur...
...Darwall's set is physically and spiritually perfect. Straight birch trees, thin pillars. How Botticellian! How very Fra Angelican! All in front of an Italian blue sky, with actors in Charlotte H. Prince's costumes of slightly brash, Pre-Raphaelite color. An amygdalaceous show, Gilbert might say. A real peach...
...that Lewis could give as good as he got. His book bristles on almost every page with his endless resources for insult. Ezra Pound, after a first impression, was "a cowboy songster"; T. S. Eliot was "a Prufrock who would 'dare' all right 'to eat a peach'-provided he was quite sure that he possessed the correct European table-technique for that ticklish operation...