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...them slick enough to sell. Says he: "Television tries to show off too much. I just want to sit down with people and read poetry." On the practical side, he also wants to stay in Chicago and keep on reading commercials. Thanks to tape recording, he can get his slice of the big-money network shows that originate on the East and West coasts...
...Geneva the Communists got precisely what they sought: a vast slice of Indo-China, and a stance from which to take the rest, plus formal recognition of their military conquests and time to do their further will. In the closing hours at Geneva, it was apparent that the Communists wanted peace as desperately as France (see FOREIGN NEWS). Now Red China had time-time to consolidate her dominance of the Asian continent, time (as a "peace-loving nation") to press for membership in the United Nations, and, above all, time to turn to the final suppression of the Chinese people...
...Minus-One. Mendès had begun that day, the next to last before his deadline, faced with new demands 1) from China's Chou En-lai for a slice of northern Laos to be attached to China's province of Yunnan, and 2) from Pham Van Dong for more than a third of Laos to be handed over to the "free" Pathet Laos movement. Heavy black circles under his eyes, Mendès had picked up his faithful backer Anthony Eden, rushed off to see Chou Enlai...
...reporter and let the police and others say why a certain kind of bunko game, for instance, is a danger to the community . . . The main purpose of the show is to take the viewer where he couldn't or wouldn't ordinarily go. It's a slice of life...
...thus sawing a thick slice off its case load, the board hopes to give itself more time to interpret issues that are "clearly of . . . national concern." To meet the board's new requirements for interstate operators, a retailer must 1) buy at least $1,000,000 worth of goods a year directly outside his state (v. $500,000 previously), or 2) buy $2,000,000 indirectly (v. $1,000,000), or 3) ship $100,000 worth outside the state (v. $25,000). Companies in some categories are excluded completely if their yearly gross revenues do not reach a certain...