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...Marty Krofft, whose family experience in the craft goes back five generations in Greece. They mounted their first nude puppet show for $40,000 in an out of the way nitery in the San Fernando Valley last year. The place had only 90 seats, but in the Poupees' six-month run they drew more than 50,000 people and grossed $112,000. Another production is now in its ninth week in Hollywood, and the Kroffts plan to open still another in Manhattan next fall...
...authorized strength) that they have little military value. For the most part, the Guard is composed of a hard core of devoted World War II or Korean veterans, plus recruits ranging in age from 17 to 26 who escape the two-year draft by taking a six-month tour with the Army, then return home to spend from three to 5^ years with their local units. Guardsmen "train" for two hours a week, go off to summer camp for 15 days every year, earn a minimum of $180 a year...
Despite poor public relations, Koppell reported that the past year has been the most successful in the five-year history of the HSA. In the last six-month period of the Agencies showed a gross profit of $149,630 and paid about $50,000 in wages...
...discreetly silent six-month cruise around the world, enigmatic ex-President Janio Quadros this week returns to Brazil, and to an Ash Wednesday welcome that well in advance was being built to heroic proportions. Some 6,000 workers from Rio de Janeiro were bound for the port of Santos to greet his ship. Bus caravans from all over Brazil are scheduled to take thousands more to cheer the prodigal's return...
Tampa cigarmen are predicting that when their own six-month to one-year stockpile of Havana leaf runs out, their $50 million-per-year business will go up in smoke. "I don't know what these people are going to do." said Pedro López, a cigar union official. Looking around a large, pungent room full of hand cigar makers, he added: "Their average age is between 45 and 60; they're not entitled to a pension, and they're too old to find jobs. I think that if they're going to let tobacco...