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...Union for the Defense of Shopkeepers and Artisans (UDCA) organized 500 ''oppositions" to tax collectors, recruited priests to ring church bells as warnings of inspectors approaching. When delinquent taxpayers were seized, Poujade packed the auctions to buy back their belongings for next to nothing (1? for a sofa, ½? for a radio). Sometimes Poujadists roughed up tax inspectors to discourage their zeal. Soon Poujade could boast: "In 70 departments, we are the bosses...
...gymnastic as when trapped in telephone cord. She employs her cigarette holder like a wind instrument, makes her gold scarf as vital to the production as several of the actors. She strikes attitudes so embattled that they seem to strike back, and she can dispose herself on a sofa to resemble the whole Laocoon group...
...seventh floor of Chicago's fortress-like Furniture Mart one day last week, a grinning salesman pushed a button in the back of a sleek modern sofa...
...seconds the $369 mechanical sofa whirred out into a standard-size double bed. "It does everything for you," bragged the salesman, "except put you to sleep...
Lawrence Coolidge '58, of Lowell House and Topsfield, Mass., smelled smoke about 1:30 a.m. Coolidge said that after useless attempts to beat out flames from a blazing sofa, "I went back to my bedroom to wake my partner, Tim Herrick. He wouldn't wake no matter what I tried...