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Soon San Jose was transformed from a somnolent agricultural county seat into a hive of technical industry. Lockheed, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and United Aircraft all built big plants amid the plum trees. By last year Santa Clara County had surpassed San Francisco County in population, retail sales and annual payroll...
...stakes are so great (billions of dollars in gas sales to the Common Market) that last week the question of who owns the gas caused a formal debate in the Dutch Parliament, and was the subject of hot discussion in the German Bundestag. "It is like cutting up a plum pudding," explains Royal Dutch Petroleum President John H. Loudon. "Everyone wants the piece with the sixpence...
...When the second act begins, sunlight has replaced the moon, everyone is cranky and bored. Songs in a jazz tempo replace the ballads of the first act. Everyone's nerve ends are exposed in the superbly done number "This Plum Is Too Ripe," which has few words and punctuates its gripes with "Sorry." And the wall is built a new (this time it is a wall of bricks and not of fancy) while the boy and the girl turn to the "real" world, she to an affair and he to the open road...
...They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis...
...elegance, the Pittsburgh-born son of an immigrant hotel manager, who became king of the silver screen's lounge lizards with A Woman of Paris in 1923, at his peak earned $200,000 a year and spent a good chunk of it replenishing a 2,000-item wardrobe (plum bowlers, mauve gloves, light grey dinner clothes), later turned to meatier roles, beginning as the city editor of The Front Page (1930) and ending as the unkempt eccentric of Pollyanna (1960), yet forever maintained his dandy image with such outfits as a mink-collared ulster, paisley scarf, brown Borsalino...