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...doesn't peek, she waggles a finger. And it's not a novel, even if the dust jacket says it is; it's a wadded-up ball of short stories...
...this huggermuggery was to enable executives from Standard Oil of New Jersey and its Humble Oil subsidiary to get a secret peek at the mock-up of a gas-station sign that will probably become familiar to millions of American motorists. After two years of intensive sorting and musing, Jersey Standard officials have all but decided on a new brand name to be used in all the company's 28,600 U.S. stations. In a final test of consumer reaction, oil and gas are now being sold under the Exxon name at 33 company stations from New Hampshire...
...three-pound, Yorkshire terrier. Enter Joanne's blind date, TV Executive Tom Tannenbaum, who was promptly pressed into service as a Muffin hunter. Some time around dawn they found the little dog alive and well. Joanne, describing the hound hunt to Columnist Joyce Haber, provided a provocative peek at her marriage to Carson. "Johnny gave Muffin to me as a Christmas present seven years ago," blurted Joanne. "That was his way of saying 'This is our baby.' He loves her so much that when we separated we talked about whether he could have her certain weeks...
...field a rare opportunity to compare notes. In 1969, 150 executives attended the TIME/ 747 Conference in Seattle, where most of them got their first glimpse of the awesome jumbo jet. The following winter TIME flew a similar group to Bristol, England, and then to Paris for a peek at the Concorde and a seminar on the future...
...units-blocks of raw concrete with brightly painted steel cladding, connected by tubes and catwalks. Nothing could be more remote from the idiom of the theater as temple-massive portico and formidable foyer suggesting, in the manner of Lincoln Center, that the audience is going to be vouchsafed a peek at the altar of some crushing god named High Culture. The Mummers Theater, by contrast, with its simple materials and modest scale, does not try to stimulate the audience's sense of selfimportance; it is entirely directed toward the events onstage. It is literally a playhouse-open, light, improvisatory...