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That is bad enough business, but the Red Chinese further infuriated Western businessmen with high-handed, independent business practices. Businessmen ordering goods were forced to undergo long,, pompous lectures on Marxism. Prices and offers changed from day to day at Peking's whim, and officials often tried to play one trader off against another. A British businessman who went to Canton to buy 500 tons of vegetable oil was told it was not available. Then he was awakened at 4 a.m., told that Peking had decided to give him the oil. The next day Chinese authorities sold half...
...southern Florida for "lost, frightened, abandoned girls from ten to 18 who need care and help." Gregg, a onetime chorus girl accused of adult delinquency in the past (charges of drunken driving, resisting arrest, slugging cops), made it clear that her nonsectarian, non-profit project is no transient whim. Said she soberly: "It would help to correct the alarming rate of violence and abandoned sex that we read of every day. I want to devote the rest of my life to this...
...swimming pool in its backyard. Pools are just a logical extension of the family television room." So, last week, said Gordon W. Rudd, president of National Pool Equipment Co., one of the nation's leading poolmakers (1958 sales: $3,001,778). Once a rich man's whim (there were only 28,300 pools, including commercial ones, five years ago), swimming pools today make up one of the splashiest sectors of the nation's leisure market. This year alone, of the 70,000 swimming pools to be built at a cost of $750 million, 46,000 will...
...Again, a recent student request to go to the college PX shop, The Well, after 10:00 curfew until it closed at 10:45 was turned down. According to a member of the newspaper, the Dean of Students objected that Wellesley girls should not be "living a life of whim...
Lower Prices. Boatmen displayed new models for every whim and bankroll. Spread over seven acres on four floors were 430 boats, from a 6 ft. 10 in. dinghy to the big craft of the show, Richardson's ten-bunk motor yacht, 46 ft. long and $46,000 high. For the carnage trade there were still costlier craft, including Matthews' 42-ft., double-cabin cruiser at $53,000, and Wheeler's 43-ft., flying-bridge sedan at $55,000. But, more than ever, boat builders emphasized economy to lure more middle-income families, made wider...