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...part of the building to investigate an attempted purse-snatching. Last week additional guards were assigned to the building, and the head of the department's Passport Office, Miss Frances G. Knight, went a step further. She issued a directive urging female employees to "stand near the alarm button whenever riding elevators" and to "always work in teams," ordered that male employees, upon request, escort girls to the basement parking garage or the building's sign-out desk after regular working hours...
...from business luncheons at noon to formal dinners at night. Strolling through suites studded with Giacometti's lean bronzes, through rooms where Picassos and Mirós alter nate with Bonnards and Rouaults into his big library, the baron likes to wink roguishly as he touches a hidden button that causes the book-lined wall to swing back, revealing a glass-sheathed bedroom with a sweeping view of Brussels. "It even has a James Bond touch," he quips...
...time hobnobbing with manufacturers to discover new styles she thinks may catch on. Periodically, samples are piled up in a conference room and scrutinized. The editors mince no words as they cast baleful eyes on the goods: "Oh, no," "Ghastly," "How horrible." Often they suggest one less button or one more pleat. Eventually, they winnow out the styles that appeal to them; then go off to persuade manufacturers to make the changes and stores to stock the clothes. Since the merchandise cannot be shown in the magazine until the stores are lined up, the editors often become as aggressive...
...Mayday! Mayday!" "I've got it," Kimes called as he took over the contols. Miller, reacting automatically as a result of hundreds of simulated emergency sessions, punched a button under the flashing red light, releasing fire-extinguishing chemicals into No. 4 engine. Meanwhile, Kimes was desperately trying to keep the plane level...
Premier Ky has his own kill-or-cure answer. Wearing wrap-around sunglasses and a button-down choler, he flew through the country last week in his purple Aerocommander, counselling the crowds: "Blindfold all the rice merchants, attach them to a pole, and ask them whether or not they agree to lower their prices." The cocky little air force general had even tougher words for a U.S. correspondent on his plane. Said he: "I'll govern this country like a military command. If I say the price of rice should drop, what I want to see is a price...