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...capitalists to blow up Communism? I will tell my wife to try them on first." Said Thomson: "We don't need any infernal machines to blow up Communism. It will turn into capitalism in due course." Then the two men shook hands, and, after paying the impressive tab at Moscow's Hotel Metropole. Thomson herded his party home to London...
...soon be finding a bonus of flashy blue and gold Gift Star certificates tucked into or onto everything from baby powder to potato chips. Cold sufferers who grapple for that first sheet of Kleenex, for example, will have to watch out for the coupon imprinted on the pull-out tab. Developed after a two-year study, the coupons will cost companies 1¼? for five (after a $9.500 initiation fee per product) and, unlike other trading plans, will be paid for only if redeemed for the traditional catalogue of goods that Gift Stars intends to offer as premiums...
...only items that can be conclusively checked without the power of subpoena. According to FCC regulations all radio and television stations must make available to the public, upon request, their own records of time purchased by political candidates. This prevents what is known as "picking up the tab," a practice by which anonymous groups or individuals pay for political expenses (like newspaper or billboards) without ever reporting it to the candidate's committee...
...says he would happily sell the rights to anyone for $10,000 if he thought they would do a good job, or for $100,000 for a movie that would star Tab Hunter, Rock Hudson, and David Niven. "You know, they once made a movie of 'Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut' that Salinger didn't like, and so he won't sell movie rights to his stuff any more. I don't understand that. Everybody knows American movies are not an art form. Movies have their own values, but they are not the values by which you measure literature. I love...
...Hong Kong, the ancient Chinese custom of concubinage agitated the island colony's women. In the past, a concubine would move right into her keeper's house after acceptance by his first wife, who was then able to keep tab on the doxy and watch out for her husband's interests. A concubine's children would address the No. i wife as "Mother," their own mother as "Elder Sister." Today an estimated one-third of Hong Kong's men have a tsip, or second wife, recruited from dance halls, but keep her on a part...