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...encourages democracy like Western Union encourages democracy. For the sake of an ideal--our heritage--the American dream--this little company has kindly offered to charge approximately half price for "personal opinion" messages to the President, Vice-President, or any Congressman. Since the recent change, the number of telegrams sent to Washington has increased enormously, said the young Cambridge Western Union spokesman, his eyes glowing ever so slightly...
Alone in a darkened room, an electronics technician pressed a microphone switch and began the countdown on Operation Dominic-the U.S. series of nuclear tests in the atmosphere that the free world did not want, but for its survival's sake could not avoid...
...things irritate a woman more-or more frequently-than a run in her stocking. But women have been forced to live with their runs for the sake of fashion sheerness-and the perishability of hose is the boon of manufacturers. Runless stockings have been developed, but few women like the seams that come with them. Last week this feminine plague at last seemed on its way out. Two hosiery companies are racing neck and neck to be first on the market with stockings that are both seamless and runproof...
...looks uneasy when people talk about Sophocles' Electra-he figures maybe it's an airplane or something. Mother Harrington (Rosalind Russell) is a charming monster of self-deception who married father because he looked safe, loathes him for his vulgarity, stays on "for the children's sake," hates herself for wasting her life, takes her hatred out on her husband, and compensates her unhappiness by cultural climbing that doesn't always make the grade-she remembers Electra as a play about a king who screamed while he put out his own eyes...
...swelter, and don't, for goodness sake, invest in the new decorator-color shades. You need follow only those two rules, which are actually the one rule, forget about fashions, and you can't go too far wrong in your summer purchases...