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...combination living & dining room, glittering with thousands of flecks of gold-colored plastic thread woven in chairs, sofa and carpet, the huge mirror forming the far wall parted; through it, from her hidden boudoir, stepped Viola Loewy, his 28-year-old bride of less than a year, to join him at breakfast...
...Loewy descended ten floors to his spanking new 1950 Studebaker convertible waiting at the curb. That he had designed too-along with all the Studebakers since the war-and thereby helped set a new fashion in automobiles. Loewy's own car had a few special flamboyant frills: a plastic tailfin, a tiny gold grilled air scoop above the emblem on the hood, recessed door handles, porthole windows and other eyecatchers to start pedestrians' tongues awagging with-the name of Studebaker− and Showman Loewy...
...Olaa packing and fumigating plant, 150 girls grade and separate the blooms, insert the stems into small plastic vials which have wads of wet cotton inside and are fitted with lapel pins. The flowers are air-expressed to mainland customers, who pay 10? to 15? a blossom...
...spring opening of the government-sponsored National Salon of Plastic Arts, he noted that a new museum devoted to surrealism and abstract painting had recently been opened in the capital. No Peronista, he let it be known, would have any truck with such decadent trash...
...Table. One day a troubled woman had an audience with Réal, who sat at the round table with his father, munching candy and playing with a plastic toy automobile. "Mon petit Réal," the woman pleaded, "my kidneys make me very sore at night. What shall I do?" "Big old fool," snapped Réal, "I am fed up. You have a cancer." He ran from the room shouting to his father: "We are going to have 700 cars Sunday. Money will come in, eh, Papa?" Papa pulled the boy back into the room...