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...Venezuelan official dropped by a small automobile-body shop outside Manhattan one morning last week to inspect a package for home: a $9,000 midnight-blue 1957 Cadillac, equipped with $21,000 worth of special accessories for President Marcos Perez Jimenez. At the push of a button, the 'two leather-upholstered chairs buzz back into a lounging position. In the rear of the front seat are a 17-inch television set, a high-fidelity tape recorder, and a small bar (four glasses, two bottles). A telephone system will permit the President to talk to his aide up front without...
...compromise. Along the blazing coast of the Persian Gulf, in the oil-rich sheikdoms of Kuwait, Bahrein and Oman, are some of the most splendid private homes that imported U.S. and European architects can provide. Air conditioners purr in every room, doors slide open at the touch of a button. But the voice of the Prophet is still heard and obeyed throughout the land. When all the girls in a school in Kuwait rebelliously burned their shroudlike abas, the Sheik of Kuwait was shocked, made it a crime to appear in public without them...
...another of his songs. She is beautiful, and with what elegant sexuality she twists about in tight-curving, fishtail skirts. She is accomplished in a way all her own, seldom raising her voice, never neon-lighting her effects. With equal seductiveness, she spoofs mechanization in Push the Button, or great-men-turned-to-dust in Napoleon, or sings woman-to-woman in Ain't It the Truth or woman-to-man in Take It Slow, Joe. As a much earthier seductress, Josephine Premice jiggles and jabbers with fine mocking verve...
...Take Three," called Coyle. "On Three," echoed Technical Director Walter Serafin into his private line to the cameramen, and he punched a button that put Camera Three on the air. It showed a side view of Crandall in the batter's box, with catcher and umpire behind...
...them." In New Orleans a housewife phoned angrily that her new freezer was defrosting; the repairman found it was unplugged. In Maple Shade, NJ. an infuriated motorist called the service station to tow his stalled car away; the mechanic found that the owner had forgotten to push the "drive" button on his new pushbutton transmission. And in Chicago repairmen for General Electric have been trying for years to convince a lady that her refrigerator does not leak-the trouble...