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...piano decorated with carved brass. The store will calmly take an order for a baby elephant-a $4,800 present for U.S. Republican Ronald Reagan from a friend-or a head of cabbage requested by telephone in the dead of night. It can find the Scottish piper wanted to pipe in the haggis or hire the entire regimental band of the Coldstream Guards; it can arrange a 1,000-guest party or a richly refined funeral. The store's export department, which grossed over $7 million last year, has sent gooseberries to Saudi Arabia, fresh flowers for a wedding...
...could previously accommodate fully laden tankers no bigger than 70,000 tons-to handle those in the 200,000-ton range. But many of the new supertankers are 250, 000 tons or more. Moreover, if and when the canal opens, the oil producers would probably find it cheaper to pipe oil to the Mediterranean than to sail through Suez and pay its heavy tolls. Using a pipeline would result in even more savings compared with the cost of long hauls around the Cape; Persian Gulf oil would simply be unloaded from supertankers at one end of the line, then...
...Boston pipe fitters recently signed a three-year contract calling for annual pay increases of 18%, to $7.54 an hour. Last week in Detroit, carpenters were on strike for a 35% increase in pay and fringes, to $8.07 an hour, while striking bricklayers demanded a 42% raise, to $9.02. Despite a decade-old pledge by the AFL-CIO to end make-work practices in construction, union locals are still getting away with restrictions on such labor-saving devices as paint sprayers and power saws and nailers. In Los Angeles, builders who use air compressors pay an operating engineer...
...shelter I met the Danish ambassador to Peking, and another time a whole diplomatic dinner party." Of course, she admits, the hotel shelter was a pretty exclusive affair. No "ordinary Vietnamese," not even the hotel staff, ever showed up in it. As for the famed concrete-pipe shelters buried alongside roadways for the man in the street, they seemed to be "more a symbol of determination than places to scuttle to when the planes approached. 'There are toads in them,' a pretty girl said, making a face...
...Cheever's skeletal story had to be fleshed out. Scenarist Eleanor Perry and her director-husband Frank (who made David and Lisa) have done so by turning the gothic into the baroque. A little boy cannot be a symbol of innocence by himself; he must be playing a pipe like Pan. To give Merrill's mental anguish an exterior, a vanilla-colored, bikini-clad girl companion is added. To increase the audience's anguish, Merrill is made to out his hand on her stomach and quote The Song of Solomon: "Thy belly is like an heap...