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...punished with a $200,-000 fine the Italian subsidiary of New York-based Commercial Solvents Corp. for refusing to sell anti-TB drugs to an Italian company that had resisted a takeover bid. Some 40 department detectives now show up without warning at company offices throughout the EEC and poke into files...
...layout doesn't tempt outsiders to poke around in places like Central Square. The buildings form a jarringly uncomplementary string of facades. Each business has developed independently. There isn't an architectural plan, historic tradition, emotional ambience or standard of quality to conform to. The smattering of fast-food franchises with their corny and tediously familiar fronts in Dunkin'-Donuts pink, Brigham's blue, white and red, and Jack-In-the-Box orange is accepted without any qualms. The only required feature seems to be functionality. A store that can supply "reliable shades and screens" is going to come...
...recent candidates' forum in Minneapolis, a woman complained: "He reminds me of Johnny Carson discussing the issues." But Bayh gives his all to everyone he meets. Nobody high or low, friendly or hostile, is spared some gesture of affection-a slap on the back maybe, a poke in the ribs, a jab to the shoulder-as if Bayh were still a Golden Gloves light-heavyweight boxing champion. "If he does that once again," Robert Kennedy is reported to have grumbled, "I'll punch him in the nose." But most people like the Bayh touch...
Papal Displeasure. Just about everyone with some claim to public authority seized the opportunity to take a poke at Madrid. In Turkey, Ankara's Mayor Vedat Dalokay not only denounced the Franco regime for having "committed a crime against all humanity," but ordered that the supply of water and electricity to the local Spanish embassy be cut off (the Turkish government quickly overruled...
...sometimes that "careful balancing" gets out of hand. "I've even seen one person take a poke at another...when you're dealing with that kind of stress over a number of days, there are some disagreements that get sort of personalized...