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...metaphor was unhappy, since the first products to which it applied were the sandwiches, French fries and other short-order items served up at F.W. Woolworth lunch counters. Their managers had violated the rules by raising prices without obtaining advance approval, and as a result had to lower the tab for a hamburger in midtown Manhattan, for example, from 70? to 65?. Four other large but lesser-known merchandisers were also ordered to roll back prices...
...room at the tony Dorchester is $48.80 v. $41.70 last year. The rate for a medium-range London hotel has been boosted from about $18 to $23. In Paris, a traveler paying in dollars could get a double room at the Ritz for $54 last year; this year the tab comes to $65. A double at the Hilton in Paris has jumped $15, to $53. Even the price of a bed in German youth hostels climbed, from...
...name musicians, and cutting an LP to give to 1,000 or so of his best friends and relatives. As the retired millionaire president of Ohio's National Machinery Co., he happens to be in a position to realize that dream-and to pick up the $250,000 tab...
...Gandhi's hard work-and her firm control of the party machinery. She screened lists of party candidates and removed the names of those whose loyalty she was unsure of; through access to confidential dossiers of the Central Bureau of Investigation she was able to keep tab on leading politicians. During the campaign she flew an estimated 55,000 miles across India, focusing her attacks on the conservative Opposition Congress and Hindu right-wing Jana Sangh parties...
Washington has refused to let American fishermen buy Ecuadorian licenses (as Japanese fishermen do, for example) on the grounds that it would tacitly acknowledge the legitimacy of the 200-mile claim. At the same time, the U.S. Treasury has picked up the tab for the fines. Every year, however, the ante has been going up: last year 51 U.S. boats were captured, and the fines amounted to $2.5 million...