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...Soviet Trade Fair in Tokyo's huge, domed exhibition hall on the Harumi waterfront. The fair was jammed with 9,000 examples of Soviet products, from tractors to Armenian rugs (cooed Armenia-born Mikoyan: "My mother used to make such rugs"). It was also outfitted with an artless array of Soviet propaganda, from pictures of Spacemen Gagarin and Titov to such slogans as "Soviet Union takes the lead in banning nuclear weapons," and "Hiroshima must not be repeated." Despite all this, the most popular spot in the hot, humid hall was a booth selling Coca Cola...
...runs a third-rate hock shop can be excused for taking a crabbed view of humanity. To his barred window, clutching their appalling array of tattered goods, come junkies, alkies, homosexuals, whores and pimps, as well as the faceless poor. Reflecting on his part in these endless, trivial transactions. Sol Nazerman, the Harlem pawnbroker, "became filled with the idea that he was building a tower of junk, struggling and draining himself to amass nothing . . . For him the core of life was there in all its reality: brutal, wretched, and grasping...
...London ballroom, there were nearly 1,000 women like them-gossipping, knitting, spooning ices from paper cartons or drinking a "nice cuppa." Suddenly, over a loudspeaker came the command, "Eyes down!" There was an instant of silence and adjusting of spectacles as everyone grabbed pencils and peered at an array of cards. On the spotlit stage, numbered pingpong balls in a glass case began to dance like popcorn in jets of air; as the balls fell one by one through a small chute, the announcer intoned "Dinkey-doo, 22" or "Clickety-click, 66," and the air grew violet with suspense...
...Gulfport, Miss. motel last week cruised a Pontiac station wagon. There the owner unloaded a wondrous array of equipment: an indoor barbecue set and an outdoor barbecue set, a box of charcoal and a box of pots and pans, cocktail glasses, an ice chest, a bottle of gin, a bottle of bourbon, a bottle of blended whisky, two deck chairs, four books about the stock market, a rack of record albums, a set of golf clubs, crab nets, a Coleman lamp for flounder fishing, a football, two tennis rackets, playing cards, a hi-fi set, beach sandals, a straw...
Alexandre & Nathalie. Jackie's conquest of Paris was no haphazard campaign. No summit conference was more carefully planned than the First Lady's return to the city she had come to love as a student at the Sorbonne. In two truckloads of presidential luggage was a blinding array of gowns and jewels?and in making her plans. Jackie was keenly conscious of the fact that no tiny sag or hemline or stray strand of hair would escape the notice of the style-conscious people of Paris...