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...France Dimanche issue; the court tongue-lashed the photographer for his "veritable aggression," and the newspaper for its "intolerable invasion of the private life of the Philipe family." Though the $8,000 in damages will probably not make an appreciable dent in France Dimanche's pocketbook, it certainly serves notice on the French press that the value of privacy is going...
Thus Charlie Shuman last week offered a practical proposal to unshackle the farmer without shackling his pocketbook. When the eleven-year-old, $14 billion Food for Peace program expires next year, he suggested, the U.S. should begin feeding hungry nations with farm products bought on the open market rather than with Government-owned surpluses. "If the market price is given the opportunity to respond to foreign aid demand," Shuman told the Farm Bureau's annual convention in Chicago, "it should be possible to discontinue the present control programs, and price supports could be used only as originally intended...
...good feeling to have five syndicates approach me and offer the kind of money I never thought was in journalism 15 years ago," he said. "But I had a feeling of satisfaction beyond what it meant to my personal pocketbook. It meant that Negroes, like white Americans, can leave Government and face economic opportunity commensurate with what they know and are prepared to deliver. This has not always been so. The Negro who got a good job in Government was prepared to make it his home. But my old profession came through beautifully, and I hope that this indicates...
...generations the BBC, known affectionately to all Britons as "Auntie BBC," has been - first via radio, then television - the sonorous, serious, slightly stuffy voice of England's Oxbridge-accented Establishment. Until, that is, the siren of commercial television sauntered on the scene nine years ago swinging her pocketbook in the guise of the ITV network and luring away the BBC's viewers. Auntie retaliated by taking on in 1960 a new leading man to spruce up her image: Hugh Carleton Greene, now 54, brother of Novelist Graham Greene, as director general. Greene brought in fresh-and often brash...
...stretch clothes may cost an estimated 5% more than the old-style stuff, but response so far indicates that no one minds much. In a pinch, even a pocketbook can be made to stretch...