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Personally, I made no attempt not to look like a foreigner and was approached a score of times on the street, often near the big hotels that all have uniformed militiamen standing outside them. Sometimes people just wanted to talk, sometimes to buy dollars. (I tried to find out what...
Died. Martin L. Straus II, 61, adman and business tycoon, chairman (1940-49) of Eversharp, Inc., who started plugging his pens and pencils in 1940 on radio's quiz show Take It or Leave It, began a seemingly unstoppable inflation when he stunned incredulous listeners by presenting a game...
In Hong Kong, Chinese Communist raincoats sold last week for 40% less than in Canton. The Japanese admitted that Chinese underselling had "destroyed" Japan's newsprint and grey cotton sheetings exports throughout Southeast Asia, now threatened to undermine Japan's markets in soybean oil, cement, structural steel, window...
The celebrated shrine at Lourdes is the No. 1 pilgrimage center in Christendom, but the town of Lourdes exploits the shrine's fame with a brazen tastelessness that is alarming French churchmen. Chief offenders are the dealers in pious objects. In Lourdes, a Pyrenees town of only 16,000...
¶ In the prison of Vac near Budapest, prisoners formed a remarkable literary cooperative. For writing paper, they stole toilet paper. They fashioned pens out of metal fragments and mixed blood and coffee grounds for ink. By pooling their memories, they produced portions of Ovid, Catullus, Vergil, Shakespeare and Whitman...