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...Continentalism, however, is sun glasses. These are lifted right from the French and Italian Rivieras and from the left bank, and give a dashing and alien air to one's whole appearance. What is so foolish is that they are worn indoors; and while most may think the wearer suffers from dilation of the pupils, he himself has transformed his table in the Waldorf to a little wrought iron one in some sidewalk cafe, where he sits reading a foreign language newspaper. Dark glasses are a little farther than most care to go, though...
...temporary readjustment aids such as those in the G.I. Bill of Rights, and urged that they be given the stature of basic principle. But as for the long pull, it is false to contend that "just because the uniform was worn for a while, the Government owes the former wearer a living. The ordinary losses of time and opportunity while in military service must be regarded as part of the responsibilities of a citizen, and only extreme or extraordinary handicaps should be regarded as creating an obligation on the Government...
Earglasses. A hearing aid, mounted in the frame of a pair of eyeglasses, was announced by Chicago's Beltone Hearing Aid Co. The main advantage of the Hear-N-See is a complete hearing set in each side of the frame, enabling the wearer to adjust volume for each ear and to catch sounds equally well from all directions. Price...
Browsing through a marketplace in Tashkent, capital of the Soviet Union's irrigation-ditched Uzbek Republic, a U.S. newsman spotted a cowboy hat, asked its wearer if he was an American. The far-flung tourist, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, reckoned he was. Later, Douglas dashed to a nearby cotton-growing collective farm, where he had a joyful, isn't-it-a-small-world meeting with the dozen U.S. farmers also touring the U.S.S.R...
...this sounds like the stuff of any one of a hundred novels at the local lending library. But Simenon does not see Steve just as a man in a grey flannel suit. Rather, he is the unwilling wearer of a hair shirt imposed on him by a world he never made and is too weak to remake. Soon enough Steve gets a little outside ordinary life. On an auto trip to Maine with Nancy to pick up their children at camp, he gets drunk and Nancy leaves him to go on by bus. When Steve picks up a hunted criminal...