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Before sunup one day last week, the queue started to form in front of Barry's Jewelry Store in Glendale, Calif. By noon, when the doors opened, there were 3,000 in line. Waiting for them were twelve regular and eight extra clerks, one uniformed policeman, one private detective. Waiting, too, were electric clocks, cigaret lighters, liquor sets-18,500 items in all. Retail value ran from $2 to $50. But for each item the price was only 18?, in honor of Barry's 18th anniversary...
...queue spirit is extending into every phase of British life. Sports, food, clothing, politics, the Government's efforts in the economic crisis are all affected by the popular insistence that if anyone is to be miserable, everyone must be equally miserable. In a country where inequality has been and still is crass and pronounced, this is perhaps a natural tendency. But it is nonetheless inhibiting to national and individual effort, and it is already justifying and concealing innumerable small invasions of personal freedom. Britons have given up most of their economic freedoms and seem intent on abandoning the remainder...
...Sophie Chimes was determined to get some coal, no matter how little, and no matter if it meant standing all day long in the queue. But after two hours in a bone-chilling wind, Mrs. Chimes collapsed. Neighbors carried her to her small, cold, prefabricated dwelling in the bomb-scarred slums of London's Whitechapel...
Revived, Mrs. Chimes broke up two small orange crates (cruelly labeled "Sunkist") and kindled a puny blaze in her stove. She went to the icy window, peered down the street in the hope of a glimpse of her husband. Unemployed now, he had gone out ahead of her to queue up at the greengrocer's for a few potatoes. Mrs. Chimes turned to her tiny kitchen and a pile of clothes awaiting washing. She sighed...
Daily Double. Under the Ministry of Animal Breeding, Russia has even revived the sport of kings. Gambling was once loathsome to Leninists; now the daily double pays up to $400. The way Muscovites queue up at the pari-mutuel windows of the Moscow State Hippodrome shows that a difference of opinion can still exist (on some points) in the totalitarian state. The horses have inspiring names: Ore Production, Tractor II, Ten Days, Karl Marx. Right now, the favorite is Kropotkin. Though they are all state-owned, there is no suspicion that they run according to plan...