Word: safes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Petals & Kisses. As the barge plied upriver, hundreds of shikaras (gondolas) milled around; their jampacked passengers wanted a good look, and they pelted Nehru with flower petals. Police in speedboats dashed back & forth, keeping shikaras at safe distance...
...Unita, brewed to replace Coca-Cola, which the Reds have denounced as capitalist poison (TIME, Aug. 22). Unità, which looks like Coke but has a strong flavor of quinine and tamarind, was a flop. Since Communist palates still thirsted for real Coke, the party decided to play it safe. "Comrades," announced a poster, "Coca-Cola was not invented by the Americans, but by the Russians...
When Karsch learns that a rocket is heading out of bounds, he can send up a radio signal that cuts off the rocket's flow of fuel. This is usually enough to bring it down in a safe area. For really bad cases of rocket misbehavior, there is stronger medicine: he sends up a different signal and blows off the rocket's nose, which may force it to land near by at low velocity...
...Gardner has to pay neither U.S. income tax nor any Puerto Rican income, property or excise taxes on any of the movies or TV shows he produces. The Puerto Rican exemptions run until 1959 and, as long as he is resident in the islands, he appears to be safe from the U.S. tax collectors. Gardner resents the imputation that he is a tax dodger. "It's just a hell of a good business opportunity," he explains. "I want to make pictures and I came here because they're cheaper to make in Puerto Rico than anywhere else...
After this ruling, Italy's semiofficial, two-million-member Catholic Action organization thought it was safe to ask for exclusive permission "to sell souvenirs in St. Peter's Square." With lifted hand, Cardinal Nicola Canali, who governs Vatican City, thundered: "No! St. Peter's is a house of prayer...