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...average Democrat, grumbles one businessman, "brought a set of underwear and a $20 bill with him and did not change either one." Merchants who relied on the Republicans to be big spenders were also disappointed. "We will be lucky if we break even," says Sheila Roth, who ran a souvenir booth in the lobby of the Fontainebleau Hotel last week. Two exceptions: button sellers did a brisk business, and some delicatessens did well during the Democratic gathering. "You would be surprised how many Democrats came in to buy bread and cold cuts to take to their rooms," says one counterman...
...Bowyer, Kennedy Corporation officials had planned to use piles now supporting MBTA buildings for the related structures. In May, however, soil engineers working with architect I.M. Pei found the old piles to be useless and new piles prohibitively expensive. Consequently, Bowyer said, related structures aside from a restaurant and souvenir shop would be a 'second-stage' project, when more money will be available...
Apollo astronauts are permitted to carry "Personal preference kits," in which they put small souvenir items for themselves, families and friends...
Killing macaques is against Japan's game laws, but some rascally beasts in Kyoto almost lost their hides after they invaded several souvenir shops and stole chocolates. The shopkeepers set up a vigilante organization to hunt them down. Some local scientists persuaded a group of visiting Americans to open a monkey park of their own, however, and so 124 of the animals were shipped to Laredo, Texas...
...days later the FBI traced an abandoned rented truck believed to have been used in the plot to Robert Sentner, a New Jersey souvenir manufacturer. Sentner is a high-rolling gambler who just happened to be in hock to Manny Gambino for $40,000. As the FBI focused its investigation on Sentner...