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Yorty may duck the whole question of endorsement this time around; he will leave this week on a tour of Japan with the Dodgers and will not return until after the November 8 election. He has applied for an absentee ballot...
Textiles are also tight. Military demand for textile goods, now more'than $1 billion yearly, has delayed deliveries of fall clothes to shops. Chinos, Dacrons and worsteds are hard to get. Almost all the industry's "duck" cloth is going for tarps and tents. Two weeks ago the Government asked for bids for 1,000,-000 uniforms; the industry submitted bids for only half the total. Many textile men hesitate to compete for Government business, prefer selling to their old, reliable civilian customers, who are less likely to cut back orders without notice and are often willing...
Newfane Inn, Newfane, Vt. Built in 1787 as a stagecoach stop overlooking the common, owned since 1957 by French-born Chef Rene Chardain. Duck and trout, with quail and pheasant in the fall...
...checkers and Western chess were abolished. Lovers' trysting places in Peking's parks were declared off limits as unconducive to Mao reading. Under pressure from the Red Guards, the staff of the famed Chuan Chu Teh Restaurant changed the establishment's name to the Peking Roast Duck Restaurant, smashed the old sign and promised from now on to serve workers, soldiers and peasants "cheap and tasty" meals costing only half as much as the previous menus...
When he meets one at a concert, he manages almost suavely to ask her for a d-d-date, but when she says yes, he suddenly looks like Donald Duck walking on air-about 15 ft. out from the edge of the cliff. Big-hearted Ted, of course, gives the poor kid some useful advice ("Put two cigarettes between your lips, light them and give one to her -very sexy, women love it") and then kindly offers to come over to Bob's pad on the big night and whip up one of those "seductive suppers from Playboy...