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Sarit valued lovely women more than the rarest jade or the whitest elephant. For all that, no beauty contests were permitted during his rule, and as a result, his country had not named a Miss Thailand in ten years. The reason was simple: before he took power, Field Marshal Sarit had pursued beauty-contest winners with the same zeal he later applied to Communists. Embarrassed by Sarit's extraterritorial demands, the government simply banned the contests, and when Sarit seized government control through a military coup in 1957, he decided it would look better if the ban stayed...
...claims that one product is better than a competing one; also banned are "Brand X" comparisons, bonus coupons, boxtop gimmicks, free tie-in offers and two for the price of one. An adman in Germany may boast that his client's soap washes white-but not whiter or whitest. Thus Y. & R. could not advertise that Remington shavers "have the biggest shaving head." But Remington captured 30% of the shaver market anyway, following another Y. & R. campaign of four-color newspaper...
...influenced teachers. Admiring liberty, they are humiliated by the servility of their Parliament; taught to respect honesty, they are disgusted by the pall of corruption that hangs over the Shah's court. Yet the intellectuals are responsible for part of Iran's plight: they want only the whitest of white-collar jobs and would rather be unemployed lawyers than hard-working engineers...
Friday's Footprint, by Nadine Gordimer. A skilled author writes stories of whitest Africa, and of outwardly jolly characters within whom soundless voices cry for help...
Friday's Footprint, by Nadine Gordimer. A skilled author writes stories of whitest Africa, and of outwardly jolly characters within whom soundless voices cry for help...