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...Greenville, S., city fathers have put through ordinances requiring retailers who carry Communist-made goods to buy a permit (up to $5,000) and to post signs in their stores proclaiming that they are "licensed to sell Communist merchandise.'' In some cases, local Chambers of Commerce privately shudder over the consequences, but feel helpless to do anything about the pressures...
Some Greek industrialists shudder at this prospect, but not shrewd, cultivated Christopher Stratos, 38, the managing director of Athens' bustling Piraiki-Patraiki Cotton Manufacturing Co. By using things Greece has plenty of-cotton and cheap labor-Stratos has made his family-owned company a model for all of Greek industry. P.-P., which currently employs 3,900 workers at five modern mills, last year earned $1,000,000 on sales of $16 million. More important from a national point of view, the company's export sales to Western Europe are steadily climbing, so that...
...safe, nondenominational way to be wrong is to call a churchman "reverend" -which is an adjective rather than a noun, and is likely to bring a shudder from even the kindliest clergyman when used as a title in direct address. "Calling a minister 'reverend,'" says the Right Rev. John Boyd Bentley of the Protestant Episcopal National Council, "is like meeting Churchill and saying, 'Good morning, honorable.' " The plain-talking Presbyterians of New Mexico's Rio Grande Presbytery (33 congregations from Tucumcari to Las Cruces) recently resolved "that all members, friends and enemies of the Presbytery...
...time is usually dusk, sometimes night, occasionally early morning. The scene is a street, somewhere on the outskirts of a large city, almost always deserted. A bird might light on a telephone wire or a tree shudder briefly by the wayside, but all else is still. The camera pans in on a woman (Jeanne Moreau? Monica Vitti? Anouk Aimee? Emmanuelle Riva?). She is doing The Walk. Her hands flutter at her skirt, her hips tip from side to side, slowly, sensually. She walks past the tree, or telephone pole, or both, or a thousand of each. Occasionally, she stops, touches...
This is a picture comforting to any German male-but these days he is likely to find it only in an old movie. In fact, the traditional hausfrau is no more. Today's West German housewife, says Family Minister Franz-Joseph Wuermeling with a shudder, "prefers a secondhand Volkswagen to a second child...