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...highly competitive business of toy retailing, where discount prices and special promotions are part of the gamesmanship, New York's F.A.O. Schwarz prospers by clinging to merchandising methods as staid as those of nearby Tiffany's. Century-old Schwarz has never had a sale in its famed Fifth Avenue store, where two spacious floors are packed with 12,000 toys, and prices range from 15? for a whistle to $2,000 for a furnished, four-room puppet theater. The store has refused to hire a costumed Santa at Christmas ever since Founder Frederick Schwarz ruled that...
...ready money of the then existing generation." The club was closed by the 1845 law prohibiting chemmy and almost all other forms of card playing for stakes. After almost a century of chemmyless absence from the London scene. Crockford's reopened near its old location as a staid, serious bridge club, numbered among its members U.S. Ace Charles Goren and Britain's Iain (Bridge fs an Easy Game) Macleod, new chairman of the Conservative Party, who resigned from the club in a huff last fortnight when Crockford's launched its new gambling casino...
...wing New Statesman, which has damned its "contemptuous" disregard of Commonwealth citizens' traditional right of free entry into Britain, to the Tory Times, which feared for the already fragile fabric of the Commonwealth. Last week, when the bill came up for a two-day debate in Parliament, the staid old House of Commons was plunged into such violent turmoil that the chair had to suspend a session for the first time since the Suez dispute...
Such episodes are rare in the staid life of the Harvard community, however. And although Leverett House was once branded as a dope den by a Boston tabloid, and Confidential detailed the perversions of Claverly, the University is far from a hideout for perverts and criminals. Crime has had its big moments, though...
Geneva's staid old lakefront hotels looked like Chicago during a political convention last week. In crowded bars and smoke-filled rooms, politicians hammered out compromises, lined up voting blocs, and kept ears to the ground for reaction from the folks back home. The occasion: the 19th semiannual meeting of the 39 nations that are parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which has as its aim worldwide liberalization of trade...