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Lipstick & Minesweepers. Whatever the local politicians might eventually accomplish in Goa, the immediate problems were economic. Goa's virtually duty-free status sent swarms of Indian soldiers into shops stocked with inexpensive foreign luxury items seldom seen in India because of the government's stringent import restrictions. Shopkeepers did a brisk business in transistor radios, cameras, electric appliances, cosmetics, perfumes, wines. In one Pangim shop alone, Indian soldiers bought 1,400 Max Factor lipsticks. Truckloads of refrigerators were purchased by army officers for shipment home. But the days of the modest boom are numbered. High on the agenda...
...years, The New Yorker Magazine has been either fat enough or finicky enough to indulge its stubborn allergy to Madison Avenue exaggeration in advertising. It takes such a stringent view of overstatement that it once rejected a testimonial touting a how-to-golf pamphlet which offered the duffer the utterly unnecessary suggestion that he "stay out of traps." Since Arnold Palmer had just lost the Masters tournament by landing in a trap, The New Yorker sent the copy back to the agency, along with the advice that the agency might consider sending Palmer a copy of the book...
Both Genet and Ionesco are admittedly ill at case with the dramatic illusion. So it is more than coincidental that both explore the possibilities of the play within the play, and make stringent demands on their actors. In The Chairs, Stanley Jay and Mary Alice Bayth do a superb job, turning emptiness into a tangible reality. Had this standard been sustained after intermission, much might have been done to put M. Genet's poetry into context and to make his fury more comprehensible. Sylvia Gassel, though, could not innoculate her long, apocalyptic soliloquies with meaning, and the audience lapsed from...
...more and more production machinery inevitably becomes outdated, many companies limp on without replacing it because stringent tax depreciation laws make it difficult to get enough cash to modernize. Treasury Under Secretary Henry H. Fowler concedes that U.S. tax write-off allowances "are probably among the most limited in the world." Last week President Kennedy brought welcome relief to the textile industry-one of the most hampered by antiquated machines-by allowing it to concentrate its write-offs in as little as twelve years v. more than 25 years previously. Furthermore, said Kennedy, Treasury tax experts are studying the possibility...
...result of civil rights legislation passed in 1957 and 1960, the commission reported, some progress has been made in the nation's fight against such discrimination. But more stringent laws are still needed. With two Southern members dissenting, the commission proposed federal legislation to make age, length of residence, a felony-clear record, and a sixth-grade education the only requirements for voting in federal and state elections...