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...added stimulus of a sexy film, Where the Boys Are, to bring them running, and the annual invasion was the biggest ever. But, the students discovered, Lauderdale in the spring was dismayingly tame in comparison with the M-G-M script. It was, in fact, just one big. frustrating bore, and the problem was to find something...
...Belgrave Square. As he swung his trim, tiny black-and-white Fiat Multipla into the square with its swank, yellow-white Regency houses, the enemy struck. "Baker four, I'm in trouble!" Buntin shouted over his intercom as a flotilla of tall, black, box-shaped London taxis bore down on him, their "For Hire" flags raised high, their exhaust pipes billowing clouds of diesel smoke, their cabbies shaking irate fists and shouting unprintable war cries...
...social living nor the family was so easily undermined. As early as December 1958, party brass noted the growing discontent and cut the workday to twelve hours. They also returned a small portion of the expropriated land to its former peasant owners, together with a small red card that bore the inscription: "This private plot of land belongs to your family permanently, and crops grown on it shall be disposed of by you only...
...Little Domestic Service. The letter, which had been gathering signatures for weeks, bore 50 of the top names among today's artists, collectors, critics and art professors.* In hurt tones, it quoted a series of excerpts from Canaday's columns. He had written, for example, that "the bulk of abstract art in America has followed the course of least resistance and quickest profit," that it "allows exceptional tolerance for incompetence and deception," and that "critics and educators have been hoist with their own petard, sold down the river. We have been had." He said that abstract expressionism...
...General Electric Co.'s executive suite, which bore the brunt of the penalties in the Justice Department's electrical-industry price-fixing victory, there was more unwelcome news last week. G.E. Chairman Ralph J. Cordiner, 60, announced his resignation as chairman of the 60-man Business Advisory Council, the business community's liaison with the U.S. Secretary of Commerce. Cordiner's explanation: he will need to give all his time to G.E., since he is taking over the duties of Robert Paxton, 59, who resigned last week, for reasons of ill health, as G.E. president...