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...Marchéville's legal grounds seem as impressive as the 430 acres that surround his château. The building is not visible from any public vantage point, but the proprietor sells tour tickets for 63?. Buffet, who made a preliminary sketch from the edge of the moat, presumably gained entrance by purchasing a ticket-with a warning in both French and English: "Taking pictures outside is tolerated, but unauthorized commercial use of films, negatives or any documents will be legally prosecuted...
Downsigns. The Nixon Administration's efforts to combat inflation by slowing the economy have long been expected to squeeze corporate profits. Even so, the latest figures on last year's earnings sketch a darkening portrait of business fortunes. A survey last month by the New York Stock Exchange showed that the net income of 559 Big Board companies dropped 11% in 1969 from the year before. Some industries fared much worse. Earnings of the twelve largest U.S. airlines plunged 43% last year to $152 million, as operating costs soared and the growth of passenger traffic slowed. Retailers have...
...moon first, might have seen this as a suggestion that the moon had vanished to the Americans. But Voznesensky also includes the line, "They stepped on its soul with dirty boots," indicating that he is simply mourning the loss of the moon's mystery and romance. > In a sketch on a soccer game, the left wing for one team scores a goal but kicks the ball into his own net instead of into that of the opposing team. A narrator says, "In our day, there's no limit to our capacity to learn. The right knows what...
...seeking the kind of free mental space in which to observe, imagine, write, only to find that a woman is never as free as a man to bum across country or through Europe. Ever try to sit down in a park with a book or a sketch pad for more than five minutes without some character feeling it his obligation to make an attempt at picking you up? Of course you can get rid of him but your peace of mind is shattered for that...
...only other new program with a glimmer of interest is Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour (ABC). Smothers Alumnus Paulsen led off with an embarrassing sketch played in Minnesota with Hubert and Muriel Humphrey. The comic, who supposedly had a stalled car and no overcoat, took pratfalls in snow drifts while the former Vice President, who was all bundled up, made interminable chatter. Other opening-night visitors were Daffy Duck (in animation) and the unthinkable Debbie Reynolds. The one amusing bit in the whole 30 minutes was the closing segment in which Pat pleaded with the "Nielsen families...