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...frightened, characteristically 20th century look-as of a mantis who has lost faith in the efficacy of prayer. He suggests the all-round fellow of the 1960s who is the antithesis of Renaissance man-painfully aware of nearly everything, truly able at nothing. His spine seems to be a stack of plastic napkin rings. But he has no false bravado, and he is relentlessly attractive. In nearly every woman there stirs the same silent response: "Marcello obviously needs professional help, but first he needs...
...Guterma (TIME. Feb. 23, 1959). As Guterma was packed off to jail, a reform management team, headed by dapper airline and hotel operator R. (for nothing) Paul Weesner, 51, moved in to put Bon Ami back on its feet. Last week, in New York State Supreme Court, a mounting stack of complaints and affidavits charged that the chick had been plucked again by its new keepers and demanded that a receiver be appointed...
...cans will each get about 10% of the soft-drink business. How the public feels about bottles v. cans is hard to tell-obscured by the contradictory market surveys rolled out by the steelmakers and glassmakers. Loudest in favor of cans are supermarket operators, who find them easier to stack and are glad to be rid of the bother of taking back "empties." Small soft-drink bottlers, in general, prefer reusable glass-partly because they make less profit on canned drinks, and partly because they fear that the lower shipping costs of cans will make it possible for the major...
...going to the press conference when Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman blows his stack at the Republicans, and he blames his ferocity on his breakfast pill: "What do you call them-a unipill? or univac...
...least one non-novel of string-thin chitchat. The laudable Neo-Realist potion of engaging the reader directly in the action of the book has led another disciple, Marc Saporta, to try to enlist his readers as coauthor. His latest "novel." coming out this year, is an unbound stack of sparsely written pages. Buyers will be invited to shuffle them as they please and then read...