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...that the place is full of opportunities for a clever girl. "Do you mind if I touch your calf?" asks the master, feeling amorous. But Madame is watchful, so the maid bestows her favors instead on Madame's father, a haughty old fetishist who asks only that she hike up her skirts and model his shoe collection. In Diary's jauntiest footnote, Moreau slumps in an armchair letting the old goat fondle her instep while her face mirrors every nuance of amusement, resignation and unutterable boredom. A scene or two later, the fetishist is found dead...
...figure was inflated, called in an independent financial consultant. The information he compiled increased the committee's suspicions and led to its demand for certified financial data. Last week Moses admitted that the fair will have to raise $3.5 million before opening day. This year he plans to hike the admission fee from...
...warning to West German industry. The nation's most distinguished economists warned this month that price stability has become Germany's most pressing problem. Wages rise about 10% every year. Overall prices jumped 2.9% in a year, but the average concealed some rough rises: a 6.7% hike in rents, an increase in the price of butter from 90? to $1 per lb., in pork from...
Improving the Image. The benefits are considerable. The shippers offered an 80?-an-hour package over four years (including a 36?-an-hour wage hike), which amounted to a 4.5% increase v. the 3.2% guideline recommended by President Johnson. The contract includes a fourth week of vacation for twelve-year employees, three more paid holidays (making twelve in all), pension increases, more health benefits and a guaranteed annual income of $5,800. This was a sweetener in return for the reduction in work crews from 20 to 17 men, recommended by Government mediators in October, and a "flexibility" clause that...
...report on the steel industry, where recent price increases have spread until they cover 16% of total shipments. In Eckstein it has one of the nation's top analysts of the industry; it was his study for Congress in 1959 that produced the startling estimate that the 110% hike in steel prices between 1947 and 1957 accounted for roughly 40% of the entire rise in U.S. industrial prices in that decade. The Council, which makes a specialty of keeping a close watch on steel, has already guided Johnson in his repeated warnings against steel price hikes, basing its advice...