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...Shoe. The object of supreme adoration was the bound foot itself. It was caressed with an intensity and ingenuity that often make this volume read like a Chinese Kinsey report. The cult of the lotus inspired a corollary cult of the shoe. Many a young man slept with a slipper that belonged to his beloved-indeed, an elderly Chinese ambassador to Moscow made no secret of the fact that he carried a trunk of tiny shoes and, as Levy puts it, "privately amused himself with them...
...They Want Computers" [June 10], TIME says that "Bata Shoe" technicians showed up at the International Computer Exhibition in Prague. The context is such that readers might infer that Bata is a Communist operation headquartered in Czechoslovakia. But for more than 25 years there have been no contacts between Bata Ltd. and the Communists in any country; no members of our organization went to the Prague exhibition. Probably those technicians who appeared came from the nationalized Czechoslovakian footwear industry, which in the main comprises the factories belonging to the Bata organization that were expropriated some 20 years...
...addition, the court last month broke up the merger of two local Los Angeles supermarket chains, though they controlled only 7½% of grocery sales in the area. Two weeks ago, the court struck down a franchise system under which Brown Shoe Co. gave architectural plans, group-rate insurance, and sales aids to the 3% of U.S. shoe retailers who concentrated on selling its lines. In that decision, which could upset scores of franchising deals across the nation, Black held that the complaining FTC did not even need to show that the setup reduced competition...
...That Dime? Cummings has been quick to sell off his few losers,*and he is personally no spendthrift. He and his second wife Joanne, 37, live luxuriously. But, remembering the day when he was down to his last nickel after having been laid off as a part-time shoe salesman, Cummings will reach into the coin-return slot after a pay-station telephone call to see if his dime comes back. "I may be extravagant," he says, "but I'm not wasteful...
COLOR ME BARBRA (Columbia). Carpers have claimed that the second Streisand TV special was overproduced, but it would take a real Barbraphobe to fault this album of songs from the show. From the soft-shoe shuffle of Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long to Non, C'Est Rien, Streisand's first venture into French, this record extends the image...