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FORTNUM & MASON of London, the world's most elegant and conservative (the clerks wear morning dress) food specialty store, is going modern. After installing cash registers (without bells), the store will now put in a U.S.-style soda fountain to "keep abreast of the times...
...scores of other nooks and crannies of Government, less dramatic ways have been found to eliminate competition with private business. The Defense Department has shut down 24 scrap-metal operations, seven bakeries, nine laundries, a chain factory, a caustic-soda plant, four cement-mixing plants, a tire-retreading plant, two garden nurseries and four ice plants. The Navy, which has been manufacturing uniforms for years, has closed its clothing factory. It is bringing in more private yards to overhaul its ships, has boosted such contracts from $34 million in 1953 to $82 million in fiscal...
...Arriving in Manhattan for a two-month U.S. tour, France's brightest literary prodigy, winsome Novelist null (Bonjour Tristesse-TIME, Feb. 14) Sagan, 19, breakfasted (on tea and soda crackers) with reporters who heard how Bonjour, a bestseller in both France and the U.S., was written. Recalled Françoise: "I was eliminated from the Sorbonne in the summer of 1953 for skipping all my classes. So, having nothing else to do, I sat in cafes and bars around the Sorbonne and wrote the book in a month." Asked how her daddy, a happily married Paris manufacturer, felt about...
...about Mrs. Nehru's meeting. Most of the bona fide artists, scientists and priests could not speak English, the official conference language, but the delegations from Moscow, Peking and the other Communist capitals were all big coveys of English-speaking propagandists, each ready to spout like shaken-up soda pop the moment the meeting opened. S. K. Patil came in from Bombay with his Congress delegation, took one look at the Red assemblage and withdrew in anger. "It is just another front organization with the Communists running the whole show," he snorted. Questioned about it in Parliament, Prime Minister...
...When they return from the missions to the mother house on the Hudson, they are received with laughter and merry chatter. And on the feast day of St. Teresa of Avila, Oct. 15, they celebrate by adding to their far from ascetic meals a special ice-cream soda...