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...relax in an armchair, sip a free drink and make his selections from items that are displayed for him. Unless he has a specific gift in mind, a husband is apt to buy his wife a slinky black negligee, which she almost invariably exchanges for bath towels or sensible underwear. Says a Cleveland merchandise manager, "Practically all the lingerie this time of year is sold to men. It's the kind of thing we can't ever sell to women. But the guy buys it because he pictures how his wife, maybe, is going to look...
...comedy is buoyantly performed, a happy tour de farce. Donald Moffat, in the role of John Tarleton, the self-taught underwear tycoon, is the image of Shaw's young old man, the drawing-room atheist who quotes his chosen gospels: "Read Ibsen. Read Dickens. Read Whatshisname." As his daughter Hypatia, Frances Sternhagen seems to have been born with a riding crop in hand and the conviction that the pursuit of a mate is the most exciting form of fox hunt. James Greene is cringingly comic as a socialist underdog who yearns to bite the hand that feeds...
...been running a school at the Y to teach Kenyan women the elaborate manners of diplomacy. Some women who attend are well versed in Western ways, but many arrive with no more social accomplishments than scratching and giggling. The Y.W.C.A. instructors patiently help them through the tangles of Western underwear, show them how to manipulate knives and forks instead of dipping their hands into their food. One instructor climbs into a bathtub and demonstrates how to take a bath. Students find the toilet the most fascinating of all Western gadgets, happily flush it repeatedly...
...came a respirometer (to measure breathing) taped to his neck and a rectal thermometer to measure deep body temperature. Wires from all these instruments were gathered at a metal plug that would be fitted later into the space suit. After all wires and instruments were checked, Shepard donned long underwear with built-in spongy pads to aid air circulation. Then he was helped into his 30-lb. space suit made of aluminized nylon outside and rubberized nylon inside. It was a tight squeeze. Before all Zippers, straps and metal fittings were set properly in place, Shepard was sweating profusely...
...president of the Bridgestone Tire Co., insists that "money accumulates when one works to serve others. It won't if one simply tries to become rich." Ishibashi (his name means "stone bridge," which he reversed to get his firm's name) took over his father's underwear factory in 1910, has made it Japan's biggest rubber goods manufacturer by such aggressive and once radical tactics as pricing his products uniformly instead of by size, and wooing peasants from their traditional straw shoes to rubber-soled footwear. A stern boss who does not believe in delegating...