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There are standard requests, of course, for all kinds of cosmetics, razor blades, toilet articles, radios, books ("I'm starved to death for up-to-date Stateside reading"), and there are special ones like the following...
...management to take off their slushy galoshes at the entrance. The Ministers' meeting place, about 15 minutes by car from central Moscow, was the Aero (Aviation Officers') Club, a massive grey building which underwent refurbishing operations up to zero hour; workers put in carpets, telephones, new toilet seats. Soviet Painter Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov inspected the decorations, found that French Foreign Minister Bidault's room contained only some dull landscapes. Forthwith, Gerasimov ordered them replaced by "lighter subjects," including a nude. In pre-revolutionary days, the Aero Club had been one of Russia's gaudiest restaurants...
...last week about charges that he had tyrannized (and plundered) Nicaragua, he replied: "These little countries are like little children. When a boy's sick you've got to force castor oil down him whether he likes it or not. After he's been to the toilet a few times he'll be all right...
...from U.S. standards. By haunting the Government, we seem likely to get a phone (in Shanghai, we hear, a civilian must spend $3,000 U.S. to have one installed where one hasn't been before). By doggedness, we dug up a second-hand bathtub and seat toilet ($750 U.S.; new equipment would have cost $2,000). By ruthless shopping we found several midget stoves (coal has jumped from $60 to $110 U.S. a ton; and at that it's partly dust and clay), which will be our sole source of heat this winter. The Japs made scrap...
...coffee dispenser is the latest gadget in the slot-machine industry, which has rapidly expanded to a jackpot gross of $500,000,000 a year. Automatic vendors now sell thousands of items, golf balls, perfume whiffs, laundry, toilet seat covers, insurance policies and hot dogs with mustard. In the offing are machines to sell 1) milk, butter, and ice cream in apartments, and 2) gasoline in automatic stations...