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...Moscow Airport there were instant signs that the Kremlin was deeply interested in the visit. The businessmen were told that Chairman Khrushchev had agreed to a meeting the next day, and the airport was crowded with greeters, waitresses serving Russian brandy and champagne, and aides ready to whisk the group through the airport bureaucracy with unheard-of courtesy and efficiency. And it was immediately clear the Russians thought that since these were businessmen traveling, they must have come to do business. Trade-that was the subject on the Soviet minds. Russian reporters asked: "Have they brought any actual agreements with...
...list of Negro roles is growing, but an even more significant breakthrough, perhaps, has come in television commercials. A Negro shaved with a Gillette razor between innings in the World Series. Rambler ads use Negroes. So do ads for All, Whisk and Oxydol. When a movement in TV reaches the commercials, it can truly be said to have reached the heart of the matter...
...Booz, Allen & Hamilton, will start in July, handling overnight all the deposit, savings and installment loan accounting for the nine banks. Each bank will simply have its entries typed up in special magnetic ink. At the close of day a truck will pick up the records and whisk them to the computer center, where an automatic reader will riffle through them and beep the data to a National Cash Register 315 computer. The computer system will do all the rest, from posting individual deposits and withdrawals to printing up customer statements...
...imaginative plans for a rapid-transit system that would include the shuttling of trains from Oakland to San Francisco through a six-mile tube under the bay. Now it takes a commuter an hour to drive the 20 miles from Orinda to the downtown area; the transit system would whisk him there in 18 minutes aboard swift, silent trains that would run every 90 seconds during rush hours. The 26-mile trip between San Francisco and southern Alameda County now takes 1½ hours by car in heavy traffic; by train, it would take 31 minutes...
...Markovna, a secret emissary from Lenin. Martov and Lenin were once the closest friends when both were Social Democrats, but since Lenin turned Bolshevik and later seized power, Martov is Lenin's bitterest enemy. Whispers the messenger: kindly Lenin, taking pity on his old buddy, has arranged to whisk Martov out of town before he is arrested. A seat is waiting on the Minsk-Warsaw night express. Not even the Council of People's Commissars knows about the deal because, as Lenin says: "There are some people who are more Leninist than Lenin himself." Moral of the story...