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...Clip-clopping on high heels, a smartly dressed girl turned into a narrow alley behind Tokyo's famed Ginza one morning last week, passed half a dozen tawdry sake shops and headed for a three-story building with an imposing marble entrance lettered in gold: "Jujin Hospital." Smaller but more significant was the legend: "Home of the Japanese Society of Cosmetic Medicine." By going to Jujin, patients can not only gain face but new faces...
...City or the flower-splashed resort town of Cuernavaca, talk art in stately houses set amid the ancient colonial towers and belfries of San Miguel de Allende. Shying away from publicity, they entertain one another at dinner, avoid noisy nightclubs. They operate businesses (in travel, real estate, even eggs), clip coupons or live on fat inheritances. A few are reportedly involved in genuine cloak-and-dagger plotting under the command of Yuri N. Paparov, who is cultural attaché of the suspiciously oversized (200 staff members) Soviet embassy in Mexico City, and reputedly the working boss of all active Communists...
Charging that she hollered "This is a clip joint," soused patrons with champagne and walloped one of the owners below the belt when presented with a $137 nightclub bill, a Manhattan hotspot filed suit against sinuous Songbird Eartha Kitt. Revised check...
...round at a screaming maid, another at a colonel of the guards (neither was hit). As his former comrades in arms rushed up from all sides, Vásquez Sánchez put the rifle muzzle to his throat and fired the last bullet of his five-round clip upward through his own skull...
...Weeks's optimism was that buyers are no longer living off accumulated stocks, instead are building up inventories again. In the first quarter businessmen slashed inventories at a rate of $800 million annually, but in the second quarter they reversed course, started adding to inventories at a yearly clip of $1.5 billion. With steel operations up 2% last week to 81% of capacity, the industry predicted a steadily rising market through summer. As matters stood, Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet & Tube already had the highest first-half sales and profits in history. The steelmen's best customers...