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...Head Cat." As a newshen, Marianne still has much to learn-and knows it. She once called Kennedy "the head cat of our Government." has a tendency to repeat herself. Her scoops are modest ones, and generally unidentifiable as such without the "exclusive" label that Hearst sometimes attaches to her copy, e.g., a Marianne story last month reporting that key Republicans, specifically Minority Leaders Dirksen and Halleck. had "pledged to support President Kennedy's present policy on Cuba...
...Hucksters and Rock Hudson seducing Doris Day in Lover Come Back. In the public mind, the advertising business is firmly established as a grey-flannel world of three-Gibson lunches, three-button jackets, unabashed throat slicing and zany argot ("Let's smear some of this on the cat and see if she licks...
...cat is not really like that. To do the job that otherwise would require millions of salesmen, the U.S. has spawned more than 500 advertising agencies of some size and stature. The backbone of the business consists of the 42 major agencies that have billings* of more than $25 million a year. These are the agencies that create the ads for the nation's major corporations and that, consciously or unconsciously, people refer to when they speak of "Madison Avenue...
Ever since he seized power in 1958. Kassem has been playing a cat-and-mouse game with the Iraq Petroleum Co., the international consortium that since 1942 has held exclusive oil exploration rights for virtually all of Iraq and has already found there proven reserves of 26.5 billion bbl. of oil. In the last four years alone, I.P.C. has invested nearly $300 million in Iraq, and Kassem's government is largely financed by its 50% cut ($266 million last year) of I.P.C.'s profits. But this was not enough for Kassem, who demanded that I.P.C. surrender...
...mental age a precocious twelve. "I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet," she reflects, "and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom." She is a gentle child who promises herself to be kinder to her Uncle Julian. She is already kind enough to Constance and to her enigmatic cat Jonas. But for some reason she is never allowed to touch knives...