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...script, in any case, is guaranteed to make actors age rapidly. Almost every line in the picture ("I call this cocktail a bikini-there's not much to it but it hits the right spots") might serve as an epitaph for laughter. As for the plot-the usual prefab fable about life in a California housing project-it is certain to make audiences respond with a ho-ho-ho-hum. Hope, a bestselling spicy storyteller, undertakes to investigate the sexual habits of the suburban female. Turner, a typical suburban female, gives aid and comfort. At the fade, Hope...
...Hole Shelter, Inc., offshoot of a swimming-pool firm that got into shelters two years ago by turning its original product upside down, has already sold 236 Fox Holes from San Luis Obispo to San Diego. Sacramento's Atlas Bomb Shelter is starting to merchandise a 35-ton prefab model for six that, depending on excavation costs, will sell for between $5,000 and $6,000. "We haven't done any advertising yet," crows Atlas' Boss Frank Ringer, "but even so, there's so much demand we can hardly keep up with...
Most of Dresden's 492,000 people live in the relatively unbombed suburbs or in cheap, monotonous rows of Communist prefab houses. Most of the men wear cardigan jackets and cuffless cotton pants, since East German suits are both shoddy and expensive. In contrast, the women are relatively well dressed. They make their own clothes, closely follow West Berlin's latest fashions...
...Hoffman circles the earth carrying six shirts, five pairs of eyeglasses and 290 lbs. of old letters, news clips, books. Also in his luggage: pad after pad of his "Handy-Dandy Little Giant Nervous Breakdown Avoider," a mail-answering form full of prefab messages such as "Congratulations," "Get well soon," "Let's both forget it," and "You paid me the highest compliment a woman ever paid a man, but I am not worthy of your love." That last item is frequently checked, for Hoffman is fond of women, including girls of all wages. His vision being what...
Four days before Ike's arrival, as Cabinet members and top military brass of 15 nations descended on Paris, the annual NATO Council meeting had opened. The setting was glossier and glassier than ever before. To replace the sagging "temporary" prefab it has occupied since 1952, NATO now inhabits a six-story, A-shaped (for "Atlantic") building containing $10 million worth of Danish and Belgian furniture, German and Dutch electronics devices, Italian marble, British kitchen equipment, U.S. airconditioning, and (alas) a French telephone system. But as if to prove Parkinson's law of "plans and plants,"* the first...