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...classified ads in newspapers. In a survey of 8,000 ads in eight major U.S. dailies,* he found no sectional differences in language, except for "smog free" California real estate. A house is "cute," "a cutie," "adorable," "exquisite," "elegant," "a dandy," "magnificent," "glamorous," "spic & span," "clean as a pin," "a rare find"-and inevitably near everything and a "real bargain." A farm is never a farm but "a rural hideaway," "rustic retreat," or "secluded estate...
...beautiful. Then he says, 'You want to buy it?' Now, that's a different story. It seems to be that way with MacArthur. People revere him. But for President, I don't know. The whole thing's so ethereal. You can't pin it down...
...reported on the gay life of the Suichuan District Party Committee in southwest Kiangsi province. By adopting the attitude, "Now that victory has been achieved, why shouldn't we enjoy ourselves a bit?" Party Secretary Chiao Erh-kung had "led a depraved personal life." Police Chief Lu Pin had "specialized in dinner parties for women guests," each time "spending the equivalent of the vegetable allowance of 70 members of his bureau." After squandering the bureau's entire budget (7,000 Ibs. of rice), Lu had embezzled party cash and other goods, helped his paramour's capitalistic father...
Leontief hesitates to use the word "predict" when he talks about the possible consequences of his work, but readily asserts that his figures should be able to "narrow down the range of economic possibilities until probabilities are pin-pointed...
...Portland, Ore., where for the past few years she lived on relief in a ramshackle frame house. Neighborhood kids sang her song outside her window. Last week, an embittered 75, Frankie died. ¶ Theola Barton is a 15-year-old Californian who likes to go to school in pin curls. Last March the principal of her school in Antioch sent her home to take out the pins. Theola's parents rebelled, said that Theola would not go back to classes until she could do her hair as she pleased. Last week Judge Yates Hamm fined the Bartons $10 apiece...