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...When a spy finds counter-revolutionaries in action, he must "go to the police station and tell on them." The bearded strongman, speaking at a gathering of commercial workers, suggested that barbers, beauticians, clerks, waiters and chauffeurs were in a particularly good position to turn in their customers. "Every servant," added Castro, "every employee of one of these rich men that attack the revolution, is a working and humble Cuban who defends the revolution and maintains his vigil." Two days later, to "hit them where it hurts, in the pocketbook," Castro's Cabinet decreed that all property of convicted...
...John Creasey (190 pp.; Scribner; $2.95), involves the Scotland Yard operative with the least probable nickname-Inspector "Handsome" West-in the most deplorable of crimes: a hit-and-run driver has aggravated the servant problem by squashing a nice old nanny at a zebra crossing. But Nanny-as proper application of the least-likely-suspect-but-one rule should make clear at the beginning-has stickied her hands with something more than spilled oatmeal. The evildoers sin vigorously, and Handsome West ratiocinates like a computing machine, but despite their efforts, the book seems only a notch or two above...
Perhaps it is the British diplomatic service that remains most concerned with future history books and with style. Letters to a British ambassador abroad must always end thus: "I am, with great truth and respect, Sir, Your Excellency's obedient Servant." In accord with British status symbolism, "instead of 'respect,' the British minister gets 'regard,' and a British chargé d'affaires must content himself with the 'great truth' alone...
...special form of wages, a survival of serfdom days when the lord, pleased with his servant, gave him a reward of money.-The Soviet Encyclopedia...
...society that Nikita Khrushchev is building. Though what are called chaevye (literally: "for tea") gratuities may still be refused in the provinces, Moscow is full of waiters, doormen, taxi drivers, barbers, grocery delivery girls and manicurists who do not spurn, but come to expect and even to exact the servant's tribute. Komsomolskaya Pravda told of barbers who "scalp" non-tippers to show them up as "cheapskates," and Izvestia reports that, since barbers share in the gross, half the barbers' income now comes from spraying overpriced Eau de Cologne on customers, thus raising their bill...