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Similarly, Rich's seldom duns its 450,000 charge customers for payment. "Our theory," explains Rich, "is that 95% of the people are honest, and we're not going to discommode 95 people to root out the other five." Established in the days when Southerners paid their bills once a year when the cotton "came in," Rich's credit department patiently lets people pay when they can, never tacks on service charges. In 1951, when Georgia's peach crop was ruined by cold weather, the store ran a full-page ad in the Atlanta Constitution...
...young sophisticates, scoff at such superstitious notions. And soon, in fact, Guy's acting fortunes are on the rise. But then, one by one, untoward events happen: a ghastly suicide, a sudden blindness, a paralytic coma. Dark signs and otherworldly hints occur: black candles, "tannis root" or Devil's Fungus, missing articles of clothing...
...analysis, outlined below, shows that it is an exaggerated fear of the potential effectiveness of China's foreign policy which lies at the root of American involvement in the war in Vietnam...
...sort of federal action. Legislation now pending in Congress would safeguard policyholders against insurance company failures by providing federal backup auto insurance, much like the kind that protects bank depositors. Washington Democrat Warren Magnuson promises that his Senate Commerce Committee will turn upcoming hearings on that legislation into a "root-and-branch investigation" of auto insurance in general...
...pinned down by fire from the seemingly deserted village of Trung An. The North Vietnamese had built of logs, trees and dirt an astonishing network of 300 holes throughout Trung An, were so well burrowed that even the U.S. bombers' 1,000-pounders and napalm failed to root them out. The leathernecks called up big M48 tanks to break through the hedgerows and roll right up atop the enemy bunkers...