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...Fall from Manners. One night last week the polite pair received a rude shock. They had just broken into the tasty Bois de Boulogne villa of Lionel de Tinguy du Pouet, France's Under Secretary of State for Finance and Economic Affairs, when they were confronted with Madame de Vasselot, the Under Secretary's aging but formidable mother-in-law. Suavely they asked her the way to the nearest safe and requested her to open it. The old lady refused pointblank...
...Communist organ Rude Pravo last week indignantly attacked the "reactionary" miracle of Cihost. The Catholic hierarchy and the rich peasants, the paper charged, were spreading false stories to divert the small peasants' attention from the blessings of cooperative farming...
Last week C.D.C. got a rude shock. The World Bank wanted to know1) how and with whom C.D.C. would spend the $5,000,000 and 2) what were the Colonial projects on which it would use the machinery. Though such full disclosure is a standard requirement for World Bank loans, C.D.C. Chairman Lord Trefgarne thought the requirement "too onerous," forthwith canceled the request for the loan. Said World Bank Chairman Eugene Black: "I think it is perfectly reasonable to request that, when we lend money to buy machinery, we get to see what they are going to do with...
Waiters in Czechoslovakia's nationalized hotels and restaurants got new orders from the boss last week. Said the Communist organ Rude Pravo: "All employees are to ask their patrons to cease giving them tips because this is a dishonorable means of rewarding service." Tipping, the paper explained, was a "degrading reminder of the obsolete capitalist...
...budding, winning-streak came to a rude half for the freshman squash team last night in Beverly, when the town's YMCA squad stopped the Crimson's undefeated skein at six games with at 3 to 2 victory...