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...things that are keeping General Eisenhower alive--he wants to see the Republicans win and wants to go to the wedding. It's not a great anecdote under the best of cirumstances, but a nervous Nixon phrased it with particular tastelessness Monday and his over-quick laugh tang hollow against the silence of the audience...
...human race has retreated into sealed, windowless cells serviced by tube and tap. All outside contact is hygienically transmitted over an infinitely sophisticated kind of television, which provides everything at the press of a button-from sex to seaside holidays, from the most exquisite physical sensation to the tang and even the feel of the sea. Life has become a painless, effortless, synthetically carefree adman's paradise. Meanwhile, the dirty work-garbage collection, refuse disposal, food production-is left to a wretched race of slaves, still living in hopelessly primitive and unsanitary 20th century conditions...
What happens off the premises, however, may be something else. Some of the 155 hosts keep expensive apartments in Tokyo's poshest districts. At least one commutes to work in a Mus tang, which retails for $10,000 in Japan. Through tips, a few make as much as $900 a month, but usually for working later than the clubs' 6-to-ll:30 p.m. hours. Despite the rules, hosts sometimes leave arm-in-arm with their clients at closing time. "Ladies have just as much right as men to decide what to do for the rest...
...private cubicle. I finished the tests as well as I could. After the ordeal I rejoined my original group for lunch. The Army careteria had all the rich atmosphere of a foxhole. The food was one grade below Central Kitchen's. The hot dogs and beans added a zesty tang to the ketchup. The bread had the buoyancy of a frisbee...
...ting-tang-walla-walla-bing-bang...