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...talk of coalition could not allay the fears that plague the apprehensive ministers. A Greek in Greece, Colonel Euripides Bakirdzis, wearer of the British D.S.O., and four friends of the Communist-flavored Liberation Front (EAM), had formed a new committee. The committee might well develop into a government, Tito style. It said that it had vacancies for men from Cairo, if they care to come to Greece...
Soon the late great entrepreneur of modern art, Ambroise Vollard, met Vlaminck who was sporting a wooden necktie which could be painted any color to suit the mood of the wearer. Vollard and other dealers enabled him to buy a small farm near Paris. There, between the wars, Vlaminck lived, with his wife and two daughters. Dressed in an English tweed shooting cap, open-neck shirt, breeches and puttees, Vlaminck farmed, painted, wrote poetry, drove his big racing car at high speed across the countryside. Today, though he probably does not know it, there is a rising U.S. market...
...mouths with a lot of money. She hounds the nervous bartender. He is killed by a car. She starts pumping the drummer. He is strangled. Escorted by her boss's good friend, Jack Lombard (Franchot Tone), she even locates the maker of the special hat and its elusive wearer. But nothing really becomes clear to her until Good Friend Lombard tips his paranoiac hand...
...Kuroki is a technical sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Forces, a qualified turret gunner in B-24 Liberator bombers, veteran of 30 heavy bombing missions against the enemy, survivor of the ruthless, costly raid on the Ploesti oilfields of Rumania, winner of two Distinguished Flying Crosses, wearer of the coveted Air Medal with four oakleaf clusters...
...much. So for the last five and a half years Zenith's engineers have worked at the new hearing device and a way to mass-produce it. Besides the economy of mass production, costs are cut by 1) providing the device with a tone regulator so that the wearer can adjust his own aid, eliminating professional "fittings," 2) providing rubber earpieces of various sizes so that the aid will fit any ear, 3) having customers send the aid directly to the factory for servicing, 4) lengthening battery life (batteries benefit from the regulator feature...