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...those who refuse to be harnessed at all, there is the classic movie-and-model dodge of adhesive tape (in Paris, the mannequins used Scotch tape) as well as small push-up forms that are pasted on under the bosom...
...bargains, British retailers slashed prices on a wide range of goods. Some supermarkets cut the price of cigarettes by four pennies, others made a sixpenny cut in chocolates and a one-shilling chop in razor blades. Most appliances were reduced anywhere from 10% to 30% in the big stores. Scotch whisky was marked down 10% in many stores. Said Jack Cohen, chairman of the powerful 340-store Tesco chain: "The cut prices still show us a very good margin of profit...
Facts of Life. Not everyone agreed. The Scotch whisky firm of Wm. Grant & Sons (famous in the U.S. for the slogan, "As long as you're up, get me a Grant's") obtained an injunction last week to restrain retailers from selling its products at discount prices while RPM is still in effect. Cadbury's at once stopped sending sweets to firms discounting their goods, and the National Chamber of Trade bravely promised to "move heaven and earth to prevent this bill being adopted...
Perfect Host. Nearly everyone got a ten-gallon Texas hat from the President. When the Times's Wicker dropped his in some viscous Texas clay, the President wiped it off for him, using the presidential handkerchief. Always he was the perfect host. The Scotch never ran out. The President regaled his guests with stories from the Roosevelt days, and-off the record-confided all sorts of things: what he thinks about some of his Cabinet, for instance. One night, Johnson even got on the phone to call Phil Potter's editor long distance and report that...
...they poured through the chinks in Berlin's ugly Wall-and on New Year's morning some of them had to be poured back out again. With beer and brandy, Scotch and vodka, but mostly with bubbly glasses of Sekt (German champagne), nearly 78,000 West Berliners toasted the turn of the year with Red sector relatives. Those fortunate enough to have passes for both New Year's Eve and the day itself were permitted to spend the night in the East, and thus sleep off the loudest, happiest spree the divided city had experienced since...