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...easily removed with a wet sponge. Burned areas may be cut out and replaced without showing edges or a patched look. Eliminated are the hazards of slippery floors, the work of polishing to make them slippery, the breakage of any dropped plate or glass, and the fatigue of the stand-up kitchen walkathon on vinyl or linoleum. The price...
...this had got out of hand when left to individual discretion, but its proscription of expense-account lunches along with gifts made many Washingtonians wonder how defense business would be conducted at all. Few officers want to return permanently to taking lunch at the Pentagon's dreary, stand-up snack bars, and neither they nor the lobbyists are likely to revolutionize their lunching habits until there is a test case of the new rule...
GENERAL CIGAR. A short, stand-up show best seen with the kids down front. A black-tied magician cuts girls in half and puts them back together again, levitates them until they disappear into thin air, then makes them pop out of empty boxes...
Dean Martin, 46, is a reconditioned crooner who looks like a Vitalis ad, but too often his behavior on the screen is just greasy kid stuff. He has a low flair for stand-up comedy and lie-down love scenes, but he tries so hard to be smooth that he mostly seems oily. What's worse, in recent years his style has been influenced by one of his best friends, and something like Sinatrophy appears to be setting...
...retail and mail order business in rebuilt foreign antiques and reproductions, equipped with dials and plug-ins to fit a phone company jack (Jacqueline Kennedy has one on a 19th century Victorian table in her White House office). Also popular are American antiques-wood-cabinet wall phones and the stand-up type that went out in the late '30s, known in the telephone trade as "the Eliot Ness." Newest dodge for phone phonies: removing the transmitter from a bought phone (A.T. & T. sets may not legally be tampered with) and plugging it into a jack next to a regular...