Word: rendezvouses
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Magic Is Out. With advertising expanding fast around the world, companies have learned the hard way that no single slogan or sales pitch can be successful everywhere. Copywriters for General Motors found out that "Body by Fisher" came out "Corpse by Fisher" in Flemish. "Schweppes Tonic Water" was speedily dehydrated...
When an apparently splendid marriage goes on the rocks, it sets people to wondering just what brought about the tragedy. All last week, people who knew Anne and Henry Ford-and many of those who didn't-were pondering the chain of events that led the U.S.'s...
Despite his vigilance, Frommer occasionally errs. In Stockholm, the three-masted sailing ship Af Chapman is a highly recommended stopover for students on a Starvation Budget, with no mention of the fact that its hostel regulations impose a rigid 11 p.m. curfew. Conversely, Vienna's list includes at least...
Defeated Machinery. On trial in London, Italian-born Atomic Physicist Giuseppe Martelli tried to explain away his possession of hollow-heeled shoes suitable for concealing microfilm, cigarette packs containing thin, inflammable message pads, sheets of rendezvous instructions, a high-powered camera, and a superstrength radio receiver. He had accepted all...
Missed Rendezvous. Over their radios, Valya and Valery sang songs of friendship to each other, flashed "best wishes to the industrious American people" and "warm greetings to the multimillioned Chinese." Loosening their harnesses, both cosmonauts performed calisthenics while floating weightlessly in their cabins. But though the two Vostoks passed within...