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Without publicizing the fact, the grandly misnamed Société des Bains de Mer et du Cercle des Etrangers á Monaco (S.B.M.),* the company that runs the casino and most of the other tourist haunts in the tiny principality of Monaco, has removed the ceiling for some of the casino's best-heeled aficionados...
such measures primarily affect the "market system," the collection of small retailers and individually practicing physicians, owners of car-repair shops and artists, pornographers et al., who, in a competitive system, are supposed to set prices according to what the market will bear Yet inflation, Galbraith says, is not caused by the market system, but by the far more powerful "planning system"-the big corporations that have gained near-total long-range control over their products' supplies, production, innovations, a manipulatable demand level, financing-and thus prices. In order to slow inflation caused by the planning system, Galbraith argues...
...title page carries a notice that "This book was written especially for Tommy Snooks with love and kisses from Grandma Snooks." The line below the title says, "Your personal story by the magic computer." Thereafter, in the four titles so far to be offered, Tommy and Tuggles and Snuggles, et al. do all sorts of things. Get a giraffe for a pet (My Friendly Giraffe), have a party (My Birthday Land Adventure), travel around as the representative of Santa Claus (My Special Christmas), and go to an animal fair (My Jungle Holiday...
From Here to Eternity. This academy award winner is cheap stuff as romantic narrative, but the acting and the characterization make it worth watching. It's a subdued 1940's version of Easy Rider (the lonely outcast line et. al.). Montgomery Cliff is superb, and one could almost learn to like Frank Sinatra from this flick. By the way, this is the role that Sinatra got due to mob pressure when his career was at its low point. Midnight on Channel...
Monte Bownes, counted to be a stalwart in the offensive front and rated one of the top linemen in the east in the preseason of this sophomore year, has decided to give up football, causing another tough-to-fill vacancy. Add to Ferry, Friar, Manna, et. al., tackle Dan Jiggetts (6 5 in., 265 pounds), sophomore guards Phil Dombrowski and Ernie Pisanelli, and sophomore center Carl Culig and the interior line could be pretty well...