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Into Manhattan's apparel district last week hurried 2,795 out-of-town buyers, biggest number ever for a September week, all clamoring for quick delivery of new orders. Shelves were bare back home because the buyers had ordered cautiously last June (TIME, June 30), and the late summer...
Today Milan and Rome between them boast eight supermarkets. Biggest operators: the Italian-owned Supermercato S.p.A., and the fast-growing Supermarkets Italiani (majority owner: Nelson Rockefeller's International Basic Economy Co.). Up to 10,000 customers a day in the two cities revel in the choice of up to...
This method of building the commercial into the drama is the most distinctive feature of television in Japan, a nation rapidly becoming as TV-obsessed as the U.S. In a soap opera, A Comic Housemaid, the heroine habitually complains of a racking headache in midscene, gulps down an Arakawa Drug...
And you give me no home. No home but park benches and gutters and all-night motion picture houses full of sailors. No home but pinball machines and erotica shelves and occasional wine cellars, and a night in jail.
This odd narrative begins with a conversation between the Novelist-Hero Durtal and a learned physician. Des Hermies. The friends go to the tower cell of a saintly but simple character - the bellringer of Saint-Sulpice Church - where they dine and talk about theology. It all sounds very dull, and...