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...main difference : the Liberals do not favor nationalization of industry). They are unencumbered by the Labor Party's internal feuds and by the proletarian stigma that keeps many middle-class voters from going Labor. Sniffed Macmillan: "The Liberal Party is performing the valuable function of the exhaust pipe in the motorcar...
Constitutional Case. "More and more," said Vinson's report, "the role of Congress has come to be that of a sometimes querulous but essentially kindly uncle Who complains while furiously puffing on his pipe but who, finally, as everyone expects, gives in and hands over the allowance, grants the permission or raises his hand in blessing, and then returns to his rocking chair for another year of somnolence...
Eyes stare out of the darkness, so green and narrow they could have been admired by a lecherous khan. They move closer. A young black cat, just full grown, steps out of a bit of sewer pipe and starts to move through the city. Its gait is all leg and female, stealthy, preying. It walks across curbs and over the cracks in sidewalks. It hunts and bristles and pads along, looking. The eyes again. Another cat. Snarl. Fangs. Battle. A fierce toss of bodies, fearsome screeches, victory. The black cat moves on. All the while, words are appearing above, below...
Last week a band of oilmen said that they will build the biggest line of them all: a yard-wide pipe that, when it is completed late next year, will pump gasoline, kerosene, furnace oil and diesel fuel over 1,600 miles from Houston to New York's Staten Island and to 1,000 miles of spur lines in between. The $350 million pipe, biggest privately financed construction job in history, will be bankrolled by nine oil majors. They are: American Oil, Cities Service, Continental, Gulf, Phillips, Pure Oil, Sinclair, Socony Mobil and Texaco...
Though the business is still wholly owned by the Schwarz family, no Schwarz has been active in its management since 1931. President Veysey, a trim, pipe-smoking Canadian, who learned retailing with New York's B. Altman & Co., carefully maintains the Schwarz tradition. He spends much of his time on the floor chatting with customers, continues to seek out the kind of exclusive toys that built the business. By offering premiums to toymakers, Schwarz gets them to add individualized touches to its toys-a redesigned box or an extra pair of shoes for a doll. The extras, plus...