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Army & Oil. In the space of barely four years, the twin dynamos of nationalist rebellion and oil discovery have produced a button-busting boom that no city in metropolitan France can match. Since 1956, population has doubled, is now approaching 1,000,000. The first whiff of prosperity came when France increased its Algerian army first to 200,000, then to 500,000 men to fight the F.L.N. rebels. Most of the new troops were reservists drawing far higher pay than the ordinary conscript rate, and produced unheard-of business for Algiers' bars, restaurants and shops. And with...
This bit of fantasy is the work of George Robert Newhart, 30, the most successful new comedian since Shelley Berman. His record. The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, is climbing steadily up Variety's LP bestseller charts, standing fifth last week, topped only by such formidably publicized competition as Elvis Is Back and The Sound of Music. In the eight weeks it has been on the market, the record has sold 132,000 copies.* Last week Newhart signed for a Midas-clutch of fall TV shows (including four Ed Sullivan appearances), and his nightclub fees have gone from...
...homey essentials as faucets that dispense Scotch, bourbon and champagne. There is also a bomb shelter stocked with a three-week supply of food, water and oxygen. For further protection, Hayes installed a heavy green living-room rug that climbs up a glass wall at the press of a button. Says he: "At Hiroshima and Nagasaki, windows blew out and lots of people were killed by glass. The rug catches it. Since the rug is so heavy, it stops gamma rays and neutrons as well...
...drive on, ten fans were slightly injured. Last week she explained it all to a Calabrian court. After conceding that she is 28, Anita admitted to an admiring judge-and packed courtroom-that she had bowled over a few of the boys. But she staunchly denied that a popped button on her blouse had triggered the stampede. Purred Anita: she had all her buttons and only ran abreast of the crowd because "some people tried to poke their hands through the car window-for what purpose, I don't know...
...once pleaded that its check was as good as anyone's. "No check is good," replied the Colonel, his eyes soft as ball bearings. "Some are pretty good, but they got an atom-bomb testing place out there in the desert. What if some feller pressed the wrong button...