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Like so. When the hero (a full-blooded Oriental introduced by Allen as Phil Moscowitz) slugs a thug, he calls him nasty names: "Spartan dog! Roman swine! Spanish fly!" When he meets the villain, an egg-salad addict named Shepherd Wong, he expresses his contempt for a man with "a chicken on his back," and informs him sternly that "two Wongs don't make a White." And the villain, when he dies, gasps hysterically: "Don't let me be embalmed. I want to be stuffed with crabmeat...
...whizzy world of two-wheeled transportation, Honda Motors Co. of Japan has long since lapped the field. Honda's U.S. export models are the fastest selling numbers since the salad day of the Harley-Davidson. Its cycles take home most of the prizes in international racing. Its new, lightweight "Little Honda" motor bike sells like soy sauce in Japan, will be introduced in the U.S. next year at about $100. And now the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer is tooling up for a sharp turn into the international auto market...
...column after years of losses. He invested heavily in automation to increase the speed and accuracy of transactions, helped persuade listed companies to release more informative reports to shareholders, and forced companies to make every common stock a voting stock. When Ira Haupt & Co. went bankrupt in a 1963 salad-oil scandal, Funston prevented a crisis of confidence by inducing other member firms to supply $9.5 million to pay off Haupt's customers...
...performance in Funny Girl: "She's like a grasshopper, a shy one . . . she's an eel on a chair, nibbling at flowers . . . second cousin to an octopus on a chaise longue." And he is overly fond of metaphors of cuisine: "Well-done with French-fried potatoes and salad thrown in on the side" (The Unsinkable Molly Brown); "a disillusioned slice of life with no butter" (A Taste of Honey...
...camera developed by Westinghouse is scheduled to go along on the first U.S. mission to the moon and telecast the trip live. Three times in the past five years enterprising leader writers have won Pulitzer Prizes for such stories as the expose of the commodity market's 1964 salad-oil scandal...