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...Boston ILG population, most of the young Chinese women are inactive in the union. Sitting together in the shops behind an impenetrable barrier of language and custom, history repeats itself as the Americanized women look down on their 'foreign' fellow workers. "Things have changed. It used to be a nicer group, but now we have the Chinese people. When I first got here there were a lot of refined people...whereas now there are a lot of people who come to this country and that's the only thing they know. Their only way of life, especially in this area...
...jobs connected with the tourist industry that is expected to develop from the sandy beaches nearby and the warm, rain-free skies overhead during nine months of the year. Pithat Rafah even has the beginnings of a chamber of commerce: boosters are already bragging that the climate is much nicer than Tel Aviv...
What could be nicer, from a thrifty consumer's viewpoint, than a checking account that pays 5¼% interest on deposits? Not much-and in New England, savings banks are luring customers away from commercial institutions with just that pitch. So far, 50 savings banks in Massachusetts and nine in New Hampshire have begun to offer a new service that lets customers write checks on their regular savings deposits, all the while collecting interest on the unspent balance...
Susan Shirk, Popkin's wife, said yesterday that she was "surprised at his release," and that she fully expected him to be imprisoned until January 12, the grand jury's full expiration date. "It certainly will be a nicer Christmas," she added...
...drab. "You know something, Julie, I've missed you," says Robert Goulet, her co-star in Camelot. It is hard to believe that this is the same sweet-and-sour Andrews of The Americanization of Emily, her best picture-when all you see is Lawrence Welk with nicer legs...