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...result, the union program is rather more socialist than Communist; it calls for nationalization of banks, insurance companies and major firms in "strategic industries." Even so, the prospect of even more government control in an economy that is already 12% nationalized worries many Frenchmen. At the voting booth, they may well heed the Gaullist charge that "the Socialists and Communists promise you El Dorado, but they'll give you Chile...
...adept at mimicry, something he does not only for laughs. "Actors have to observe," he says. "They have to know how much spit you've got in your mouth and where the weight of your elbows is. I could sit all day in the Optimo Cigar Store telephone booth and just watch the people pass...
...255th and last murder on the 1972 books occurred late New Year's Eve, when a Florida man telephoned his wife from a booth to assure her that he had arrived safely and that she should not worry about the horror stories she had heard about Atlanta. His last words to her were: "He's got a gun . . . no, you're not going...
...they still can have horrifying impact. Three days after Christmas, a bomb exploded in a car in the Republic of Ireland border town of Belturbet. The blast killed a girl, 16, who was passing by on a shopping errand, and a boy, 16, who was in a nearby phone booth. But those deaths were accidental. The chilling trend is toward the deliberate killing of often obscure and apparently peaceable citizens...
Fans of Cartoonist Charles Schulz will recognize that the center's publicity gimmick is a direct steal from the comic strip Peanuts, in which Good Ol' Charlie Brown's mean, cranky friend Lucy deals out her own brand of caustic counseling from a "lemonade" booth. But Psychiatrist Weininger apparently knows his Freud better than he knows his Schulz; at this time of year, Lucy's fee is not a nickel. Every October, because it is less comfortable to man an open booth in cold weather, she raises her price to seven cents...