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...Sack Suits. Today, as before, the center of the sugar and pineapple kingdom lies between Bishop and Fort Streets in Honolulu. But the men who stride briskly in & out of the air-conditioned buildings are not proprietors in the 19th century sense; they are corporate managers...
Like their brethren in the corporate world from San Francisco to Boston, they incline toward the Brooks Brothers sack suit-and wouldn't be caught dead in an open-necked, flowered aloha shirt during business hours. Shares of all but one of the Big Five are traded on the Honolulu Stock Exchange. Between stockholders' meetings, the corporate executives manage sugar and pineapple plantations, and manage them with great skill. They compete with each other for insurance business. They still have tight control of sugar and ultimate say-so over the Matson steamship line, but dominate very little else...
Anger in the Pantry. In Pinckneyville, 111., after finding only 30? in a café's cash register, a burglar 1) smashed ten dozen eggs, 2) poured vanilla extract in the chile, 3) plastered hamburger against the windows, 4) dumped a sack of sugar into the silverware...
Last week the Hamburg city council took pity on Private Schleicher, and passed a special legislative act granting him full pardon for everything. But bitterness had entered the sack's sad soul. "I'm going to spend my life," he swore, "fighting the stupid red tape which is entangling every German...
...seventh month after its creation, restless NATO, through CPUBINFO (Chief of Public Information), named 80 sub-agencies and offices to be officially designated by top secret anagrams-their initials. By last week the number had increased to 125. Most everybody knew SACEUR (pronounced "Sack your" meaning the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, i.e., Dwight Eisenhower). They could guess at EB (the Executive Bureau of the Temporary Committee of the North Atlantic Council), but who could explain that SUSREP-NADPB meant Senior U.S. Representative North Atlantic Defense Production Board, or that CINCNELM meant Commander in Chief U.S. Naval Forces Eastern Atlantic...