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...hunters competition. But after skimming seven barriers with surprisingly unrusty gait, she clipped the top pole of the next one, saw her outsized derby sail across the ring and finished out of the money. "Ethel," reassured her black-tied Husband Bobby, as five of their offspring giggled and fidgeted underfoot, "you did fine...
...Brown & Williamson tobacco com pany (Kools, Raleighs. Viceroys) said that it was against violence: on Brown & Williamson shows no actor is allowed to grind out a cigarette violently in an ashtray or stamp it out underfoot. "Whenever cigarettes are used by antagonists or questionable characters, they should be regular size, plain ends, and unidentifiable. But no cigarette should be used as a prop to depict an undesirable character. Cigarettes used by meritorious characters should be Brown & Williamson brands...
...Fish Underfoot? The shunting of millions of workers out of factories to help on the farms has sharply cut production of light industrial goods. Near Tientsin, a cement works normally employing 6,000 workers limped along with only two of its eight kilns operating, in some months shut down completely, and has now been converted to the production of "substitute food"-a ground-up mixture of hay, grass roots and other plants. Elsewhere, factories in need of spare parts or raw materials are standing idle. Families are now rationed to 2½ ft. of cotton cloth a year-"enough...
...Phoenix's Del E. Webb, builder and part owner of the New York Yankees, began studying retirement communities. Despite most advice to the contrary, he decided that retired people often feel uncomfortable around younger couples because their interests are so different; furthermore, they do not want children underfoot. They prefer organized activities to keep them busy, want sports facilities to be ready when they move...
Methods of Repression. Paradoxically, wherever the new spirit of national free dom is on forced march - in Africa, Asia, the Middle East- freedom of the press is usually trampled underfoot. Once freed of their countries' colonial occupiers, the new rulers of Africa often modeled them selves not on libertarian standards but on the example of Africa's oldest black republic, Liberia, which has kept the press subjugated for 134 years...