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...parents meet their prospective in-laws, who relate, down to the last insufferable penny, how many thousands they spent in properly marrying off their own daughters. Bette Davis digs in her heels, insists that Debbie get a marriage as splendid as The Bronx can afford. Father Borgnine, a taxi driver, seeing the savings of 15 years vanish in an orgy of limousines, caviar and wedding receptions, roars like a wounded bull elephant. Debbie's best friend .blubbers her tragedy-with her husband unemployed, she cannot afford the matron of honor's gown. Appalled by these developments, Debbie...
...share some of the current ideological ferment of their countrymen, Czech Reds have been trying to squash any new thoughts among their people. Czech newspapers refused to print the students' resolutions, and the students gave the regime a lesson in enterprise: they fired off copies by air taxi and motorcycle to other Czech university towns, where the resolutions were widely circulated and discussed. Someone sent a copy to Radio Free Europe, and soon the full text was being beamed to all Czechoslovakia...
...compromising the security of the state." The French press raised such a protest that Barrat was released provisionally. Three months ago Newsweek's Paris Correspondent Benjamin Bradlee was arrested and ordered to leave France for a similar offense-though he never got closer to the rebels than a taxi ride in Algiers. This time the U.S. embassy protested, and the French suspended the expulsion order...
...inflation, though high, has not kept up. Result: anyone paid in dollars can buy beef filets for 11? a lb., rice for 2? a lb., gasoline for 5? a gal., cooking oil 4? a qt. A maid's salary runs from $1.50 to $2.50 a month; an average taxi ride costs 5? -no tip expected...
...September revolution, from around 30 to a current of 36. Thus traded, a dollar will buy such bargains as a platter-size steak with a bottle of wine, or five pints of good Cordoba beer, or admission to seven first-run movies or a ten-mile ride in a taxi. A rent of $300 a month gets a country house with a swimming pool and big garden...