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...even funny. One saboteur recently turned loose a box of live cockroaches in Republican headquarters at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel. Lyndon Johnson aides reportedly poured itching powder down the backs of demonstrators carrying anti-L.B.J. signs at his rallies-forcing them to drop their boards and scratch. Democrat Leo Marshall, seeking a seat on Pennsylvania's New Castle County Council in 1966, was the victim of someone who sent a flatbed truck carrying a black band and black semi-nude go-go girls into a conservative white ethnic neighborhood, noisily urging his election. He lost...
...deposit. Agents must recruit a minimum of 40 people for each trip; all members of the group must fly both ways together and stay away at least seven days on charters in North America and ten days elsewhere. If a traveler changes his mind before takeoff and decides to scratch the trip, the new rules-which are scheduled to remain in effect on an experimental basis until Dec. 31, 1975 -give the agent some leeway for making refunds...
Your reviewers maintain that we "charge excessive prices for mediocre food." We are not cheep. We do not pretend to be. You cannot serve prime beef, use real butter, make all your sauces from scratch, and use fresh fruit and fresh potatoes (even for the boiled ones) and have a particularly inexpensive menu. My statements can easily be checked. Come over and I'll being made fresh before each meal and the Prime stamp on the meat...
Holiday Inns has a products division that makes and markets a myriad of goods: furniture, bologna, kitchen equipment-everything that is needed to start a motel from scratch. The division even manufactures prefabricated bars. One popular item is a $25,000 Club Escadrille bar, complete with World War I flying decor, wing emblems, portraits of Rickenbacker and Von Richthofen, and a muted sound track of planes landing and taking off. Though franchisees are free to get their equipment anywhere, most choose to avoid the bother of shopping around and buy from the parent company. Last year the products division sold...
...musical Americana has resulted in the publication of the complete music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk and of Ragtime Composer Scott Joplin (TIME, Feb. 7). With such continued aid and support, says Hill, "we want to do a dozen or more programs like this one. Even that would barely scratch the surface...