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...Japanese farm is the eldest son (younger sons usually leave home as soon as they are wed because they stand little chance of getting anything from father's estate after big brother is through with it). After him comes mother, who is the real ruler of the roost. At the bottom of the list cringes the daughter-in-law, or oyome...
Hard Drinks. Before his current success, North Carolina-born Soupy "scuffed around from one radio and nightclub job to another. I kept quitting because of illness. They got sick of me." Finally he came to roost at Detroit's WXYZ, where two years ago he was the summer network replacement for Kukla, Fran and Ollie, clobbering its rating in several cities. Outside an 18-hour workday at the studio, Soupy lives quietly in flossy Grosse Pointe with his attractive ex-vocalist wife Barbara, their two children, three and five, and a 3,000-disk record collection. There, instead...
...Worthington Corp. announced its arrival in the Dallas market by sending 300 carrier pigeons to 300 leading builders and contractors. All came home to roost, nearly half bearing invitations for Worthington salesmen to call...
...Father Morrison stated the case: importing "9,000 aliens" (4,000 soldiers and their families) would wreak havoc with the livestock, tweed, seaweed and egg-packing industries. Said he: "The range will have to be built over our dead bodies." When the Air Ministry showed no disposition to re-roost its rockets, 16 crofters flew to England to harass the aliens on TV. Last week Father Morrison began talking ominously of his "trump card," a scheme to have the entire flock of crofters emigrate to Canada. "It would cause a revolution in Scotland," he prophesied. Of his own role...
Civilianizing. "What a way to treat the navy!" cried London's jingoist tabloid Daily Sketch. A Daily Mail cartoon showed Admiral Nelson atop his Trafalgar Square roost dressed in top hat, striped trousers and cutaway coat. But Tory anger in Commons was stayed by the realization that Britain could either cooperate or go on cutting off the flow of its lifeblood oil at Suez. Lord Hailsham, quieter in London than he was in Port Said, said: "We will civilianize the whole fleet if necessary...