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...host to rent five dozen highball glasses ($7.50) for New Year's Eve. Says a Los Angeles housewife: "We give a big party once a year, and even if it costs a little, I'd rather rent the china and silver I need than ransack the neighborhood borrowing extra cups and plates." Few customers show any signs of embarrassment. Explains a Chicago hostess: "No one would try to pass off rented silverware as her own. It would be like introducing the caterer as your butler...
Suddenly a storm comes up. The party has to leave the island. Where is Anna? They call. She does not answer. They ransack the island. She has vanished. Is she dead? Did she run away? The yacht heads back to port, leaving Sandro and Claudia to continue the search...
...doubtful victory. Territorial Police Superintendent Bob Brandt's meager force of uniformed police and U.S. deputy marshals patrol the vastnesses in planes, helicopters and on dog sleds, alert for signs of old trappers who sometimes die on the trail and are eaten by their dogs; for pillagers who ransack the remote cabins, where a food cache is a guarantee of life for the inhabitant; for the hardy men who are inexplicably swallowed up in the unmapped oblivion...
Writers of doctoral dissertations ransack mightily obscure quarries for old stones to be turned. New-fledged Paris Pathologist Tony-Michel Torrilhon, who did his stone-turning in Europe's art libraries, last week turned in a thesis on the maimed, ailing creatures of the great, earthy 16th century painter, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Torrilhon's hypothesis: in painting after painting, Bruegel reproduced the maladies of his Low Country peasants with a diagnostician's keen...
...Western Europe are three times as high as ours and America's three times as high as Europe's. We cannot reach that of America, but we could reach that of Western Europe-if we could reduce armaments and engage in big foreign trade." Communists may ransack the pages of Pravda in vain to find a Mikoyan speech endorsing Khrushchev's economic claims. On this aspect of Khrushchev's policy, says Bialer, Mikoyan is "waiting his time...