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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-01-14, Page 2w. • ► ► • 0 k 0 0. ► p. ► p. ► ► ► Those, of course,, are. debated over and he- thinks "maybe rd like that otherptern.'f-, 9 n there eer i 4? a hS4jf doze1.‘ r ore stilts- in tht dressin, re Thentewhileethe,:gelesmanef ting booster wraps 'one suit around, his waist, dangles another down inside, his. trousers, dons a con- ceeling topcoat and airily walks out with a "thank you° wave to the eireitated,, salesman, writes .7 1,awrence Martin in the Felice Gazette. "So' yea 'get your imported suit at oxxe,.tirirsl the cost and the nosy booster, finds himself with %eel extra -size ;ore se-e-long or . short as the customer demanded, This,"et times, builds up a back- log of hot merchandise for the booster but he can always "move" it rapidly: through park- ing lot attendants, night clerks at' second rate' hotels, or bell- hops who are always looking for , a bargain. — )3 ut, usually, t "booster" doesn't steal wholesale lots. This" is 'left -to the hijacker who ..steals by the: truckload end:Lisa- ally unloads his loot through a fence. The ,booster is a whole- sale "shopper" who hands the ordered `merchandise "along 'to- his thrifty bargain - conscious "customer" just as iapidly as he Women "bOoSters" have more difficulty %as.,theye are notedfor appropriating smaller items which fare then sold", among a circle of, acquaintances. They do, of course,-take "orders" for the higher priced_ dresses, fur ,coats, mink-stoles and'suele But Worn- ' en need lots of smaller, eccee- series, too, particularly wheri' the price 1st right. So the , woman booster who specializes ixi small' items does , her "wholesale shopping" with. pair of oversized bloomers. The loot •then is droppedethrough the waist of the skirt and into the bloothers, Which often 'hang sus- pended almost down to the hem- line. The booster makes his con- tact '•mo te'frequently in a bar where he is known - and where he knows everyone. He will ac- cePt -a "new "customer" only when the "customer" is recom- mended. Such credentials usu- ally are. .siipplied by the: bar= tender, who works as the boost- "er's "customer's.man,"7, When the Police Gazette start- ed its investigation of the lebost- ers operation Widely in'. New York, a bartender at a Broad- way liar made the introductions, The'booster was a jolly, .openr faced endfriendly type who was yerfealy Winilig 'to .sit and haVe a few drinks with,-his new "customer" He quoted the 30 per cent rate'ind then asked: "What can I, get for you?" "Well, I haere!'eeveyal, things in neind„," said the Police Ga- zette investigator, mentioning • first that he was being annoyed by. a ."terrible headache." "Wait.' a minute," said the booster Solicitously. - A few minutes later he re- , turned and thumped one of those giant,. economy-sized bot- tles of ,aspiren on the table, "There, „that ought to fix it up," he said solicitously. "I sure appreciate it," said the Police Gazette investigator. e"Hove, much-do I owe you for the' aspirin?" "Nothing at, al, the booster 'replied breezily. "Those aspirin are 'on' the corner drugstore!" He had gone to the corner and Stolen them. This time there was no charge, not even the usual 30 per cent. After all, the booster has a reputation to up- hold - and has to treat the "customer" right! The, thin, well dressed little Inert with the hair-line mons- tache slid into the booth quietly. His eyes raked the "Customer" searchingly, analyzing the Pros- pect that this might be a detec- t/VP, 14,1 understand," he said, "that you want to, buy 4 A. mink ,stole," "That's rightV",, oilier' Ore ': plied. "What colour and what-quite?" The "customer" blinked. e "Well about p.,00e- 4 The littleeman nodite4,,ee ; "Okay, I'll have it tomorro- w. It'll be worth $3,000." Without further words the little man started to leave, The "booster" - the thief ,who steals it for you wholesale on a charge of 30 per cent of the going price -had taken an order. r, "Wait a minute," said the other. "Howe do Ie know be worth $3,000?" The little man drew himself up haughtily and frowned doWn on the "customer," "What do you think I am," the . barked, "a crook?" "You take it ' to it it isn't worth $3,000 you, don't owe me a dime." The next clay the "customer" had his $3,000 stole, in the:pee-. . per shade.„ and s for $1,000. Not only that; but aPPraleed'hy• furrier, it wase woeth In such a manner does the "booster" operate-a 30 per .cerit "middle man." ,who eliminates the &diet Mari. *For the- booith' • will get it for you better than wholesale, whether you want a bobby pin or a TV set, a ,steetn iron or a new suit of clothes, an exclusive ladrS,"dtess be.. a dozen imported sweater's.. All you pay' is one-fliiid of the list price. It is shop-lifting at its most advanced and polished-stage and those who practice it are the brassiest thieves in history. Like in the case of the tele- vision store from which expene, sive sets were vanishing. The help was interrogated and found to be absolutely "clean." A puz- sled detective, hired .' by?; : the frantic manager of the store, couldn't, unravel „the -case. until he saw th store's - assistant manager trundling a dolly cart back throughe the' Irorit 'door. "Gee," sympathized the detec- tive, 'fyou have to .do the., hard Work, tee?" "Yeah;" skid the, assistant manage r. ""T 'h ati etiefOmer couldn't get‘ethe television, set, he just bought, into, a etexieab, I just gave,him a hand." "Who sold himethe set?" ask., ed the detective. "I don't know," the assigant manager replied. Then it dawned dii4Veleilihdy. A "customer" who actually, was a booster at work simply had waltzed into the shop, asked for help 'in ' getting a set on. „the dolly, and walked it right out,- with the obliging assistant man- ager unwittingly helping him get the stolen set into a cab," They are a brassy the boosters, and they work with such assurance, aplomb kid speedy dexterity that their seeming innocence usually lets them slip away without detec- tion. So you want one of those inlet ported broWee tweed spits ewhicha are selling at one of the best men's, store s for $150. Name your size and the booster will get it for you for $50, Not only that, but he'll probably get two or three 'While he's at it, "I'd like to see this pattern and this, and this," he says to the eager salesman. Th.y Steal It For You Wholesale!, *Zee; eleeevet' isr4Oriolv ItAkiNd A TEA BREAK -- Norwegiati CeoWei PriTrieestiatOld,S1 ,,kesci Offer' a seven-hour night March he riarthe'rei Norway, /;/-liere to, at d lieutenant, ireet2senil 1,1 eterilarid of cirt infantry group. The prince sips, his- 5reW Ircern a'cup bearing a crest, 'While he s 411 eitette ! be s it keel' k el.3 ,,,t0.;f4ti 041 ti 64 Mkt littoovnitsel an entire daY'm the shell-torn no man's land with only dead soldiers of both sidei for 'coin-- .Paner. ; He managed to find clistrace lion by eeading a pbcket edition of Hqraer,e the greet Greek poet, in the eriginal text, .• Sir,. Winston ,:chttechill's pas- times when •he .was Prime Min- ister- painting, writing'' and bricklaying' betel-lee 'woeld- famouse •but not many people know ,thet ehee adopted another, in 1952 - tropical fish breeding. Lord Palmerston had the extraordinary habit of keeping fit by sometimes going out into his garden if. dead of 'night and climbing, the ,very. high iron e, railings there several times. He said ethisl kept him ire, 'perfect , physical" eSeireclitiCM and enaklecl.;: rn , bi ,to eee Pastimes Of ray* Premier 6g_r British prime/ iirster in Q" t ist orY has 11,* a hob- by or pastime of some Md.,. Sometelieve had severer- ' r e Macmillan, ter instance, is fond of sheeting and. also likes long walks,, when he can fpari, :thee., time. One of Mr. Macmillan's little- known pastimes is reading Greek.. When; he was, * '.),',64g officer in the Grenadier Guards during the &et world .war he Was Welencled. and had, to sPITO "eeeee. );•,:" 315 ,t;i!ort I'' , 4t,1401, 4 „,„,,.tv ,t „,i1,...it ..,, :ey" ;trim, , f.„,1...,..,.. . '.:VT(Or14".... /'.;1'...r1 11 rertl,S1.C7.4.. 'Oft' ' f', •;.,:.i,fliilife` 'TO PC? IP 'T.' 141;; ' IP rtl 0 'in ', •i' .11.1:'''.:Pl'tt;:f6 . .... Itii6ErDi.;11,.11.1,.,01RtoR,;11,:te jeGe:MIA:C1H:iNiftEt,:p. Ei,..1:riilcitt' prOcsssect, on on assembly Iiiinmolboded I he ShftlultIM(.1.4litY'ltf(4?. 4 # • bf.Illt. Ili 'slifinbri,i,t0r:ilheifi$,Oiiily,•,psliir,"g flditi(JtVirAlttfit.711Wdtr,t.it cit,ideVIt04firea ri jjt•Otett up lo 1.26 1 &CS 47.f va, i roilook - )1510g *ttiii1644: lt4O'F,' A.4 akt , ;i $.- i " 1 Cannibal-Treasure - — Einiity 'Milk 'Cans ' ' Will a hitherto unseen tribe of human beings be discovered by the seven members of a Fran- co-Dutch' expedition Whieh 'set out recently to explore the un. explored interior of New Guinea? It is possible. After `spending some time with the little-known Asmat tribe, the expedition will this autumn try to penetrate the mountain wall ranging from nirie to fourteen thousand feet high and enter' thee valleysl, behind it' which in the' past have been seen only from the air. „ It is believed that the un- known inhabitants practise a kind of agriculture because air- men have photographed .terrac- ed cultivation and 'brought back pictures of villages with brilliant red roofs. _ Impenetrable jungle and huge swamps laden with fever have often proved a barrier to •ex- ploration. New Guinea, a large island lying to the north of Aus- tralia, includes the last Section ' of the world which top to now has remained closed to explor- ers, Fantastic stories ?have- been whispered that thise area may contain "mountains at gold and cliffs of ruby," There are also stories of travellers Who believe that pig-Worship, ;*nibalierri and constant warfare-are prac- tised there. t An earlier New Guinea ex. plorer, Captain Frank Hurley, came upon a tribe of head-hunt- ers who had never before seen a white man, 'ile - o ein bt • ' ci The photograph s e Of these so - called, "Seone l lege chieftains" were amazing arid. called tb leaflet :, Aleyrian . arid Phoenieian kings of Old Testa- Merit finite. Captain,:Hurle'Y was A struck by the beauty of the Wolter'. ',. o' :, fan 1 p, .$ in One care-libel chief's- house, he killed thirty - six human - skulls. None of the hatieree,,had, ever seen metal of any kind Ad' the white men "treastekereWeine . the shape of empty milk tins and Metal 'containers Made theme Mille in,etteci of scow], and when thee? &Lind they could acquire one at the price ,'of a pig or a Woven inatigirwaStibettw,rw•t• *rt e toolitt idle' APPETiT The tiniest tot enrolled ip_ Arcadia Park, soh oel s ,Ka y Burnett; take's "a". nionesized 'food 'tidy frorn"ei'' c'irete'rice e r -She is 34' 'inches T tall.' eee • , r. STATE Grace. of.:3 Monci'dd French , i Prernier, Ae'cecidee and .her husband, Prince Rainier ..mo,Fie ah ,official visit foi the city. eei r 'With; taPPlea.! sQi. ,deliciously, .; e g envelopes unflavoured i ' crisp right now here's, e Wad • gelatin Which c, o ombines several fine fla- , 1/e cup cold: Water - yours, 'Mix together , a dip f 2-3 droPs red 'food' eolourine ,' '' diced, unpeeled argileiea'Ctip eV' - ' a/e. cup' sugar' • : ... :,,*. e . , '"sliced ,g r ee n , peppers, p,„:cups , 34, cup4fresh,1emon juice ., ,: "thinly sliced celery,' 172" ' cup ' Ve cup , fresh . orange juice chopped pecan4 'Ve :cup toasted' '''''' 1 teaspoon grated lemon ehoppedelrn,oncis, 3,4ahleSPO9,ns . , peel , „... mayonnaise, ?.-VOcsRooris sour ' ' "1.14 1;4-ounee 'Can, creath, 117.12 'teast)Ooris- fresh" let ' ' ''" ekapoiikteeiiiillt,"chilled` r " mon juice; arid' .1,4e' legipbbh 'Salt. ' ;4 6 maraschino , decrees, ' 4 Arrange"rdnilettueeeanclesPrinklel, . • , halved . - •! ., , : . . - '''around each -,Salad grated, fresh , 1 3/2 -cup.crushed pineapple , carrot .7- aleciute.2ecu,ps ines11., - , .. „Heat milk, and .,marshmallows , • * „-et,---*. , , ,,e ., in, top, of double. boiler until .i Another good, fall -salad come . marshmallowe dissolve. Soak , `binatiOn is celery, apples, and gelatin in cold' water 5 minutes; ' tuna fish, assembled with 'may- ' disSelve 'in' inarahmalloW mix-' .*.ennaise 'and - Some- seasonings' l, tui.e. Add food'.colo'uringe,sugar,. , •. (try, fresh. jetriciniurce)% '.t. "1:' 4- ""citron juices andpeel..Chill ,un- , ,4, ,0' *., ; ,-,, - ,-, 01 mixture begins to: set., Whip,. It 'is a rare occasion' when one: . chilled ,evaporated milk and fold "'finds on' the 'menu Of ,a reetaur- into gelatin Mixture. Fold in ,halVed ',cherries, and' pineapple. eahillt;:.asoh;6:Theta.Y.:/°wfacs°61,tekildng• traticeka't Pour into neelde,e,nelerefrigerate, r.,..e. . , , ....„ . The. Old Wareew. in Dallas the until set. • Specialty of-the housee,wasesuch ,, . it le * 1diale I wanted to try it. It , Among the ,'most „popular r ql, turned out to be beeasts.tyOungel. ".refrigeeator, :desserts 'are' these chicken which was boned, flat- ,„ :using ladyfingers. ler a' base." ' .toned, ' and wrapped; :.f around ,I, ,Here is one 'made"' unusual "by - sweet,butter, fastened together , the usetrehOpped candied gin- 'tightly and in• deep -fate: ' 'ger .as -an, ingredient. Whew' it' Was 'seevede - and , , r t GINGER` .1 PINEAPPLE 1- • ,• this was:donewithmItrue French... .,, CREAM „FI.NGERS.:24 ,,,1 4 . flourish '- the , waiter,, slit -.it.: )13 , ' ladyfingere open_ with, a` sharp;, knife so, that • - tenders browned , e f : the• meltedesweet, butter ,00zed=. ee'' 1 'hiiii 'er -I'No. 1 can crushed all o :tee r the n pineapple;'-well:,drained . - white, meat ;It ,Was truly, a, new , - ' ` I tahleSpOOtt f!!liitY.41110PM4 taste far chicken. , 1 ' , candied ginger - ' e1 cup. heavy, cream' whiPpetl' •; Dessert at that meal was Ba- e Y2, tea:spoon vanilla varian" cream' midb 'with. bite a ' fruit, in it/ and served' with ' a ,.` -Fold" ;pineapple, ginger, a n d generous spooning 'of : fresh e- vanilla, .into,. w,hipped -cream.. fruits ' on the plate beside it.• i :Split Iadyikrigers„ and 'arrange . * * * . ' on .botIone 'Of:a 'light-137 bdidred The 0 Id Warsaw is small, ' pan lot "X.-,6 '5i 1.1/2 lificlies:''Polir '' serving. about _;120 persons for cream !filling oVereiedyfirigeree; dinner each evening. A few ' Place iladyfinger, /halves .across. • years ago it was on the New top of ,filling. ,Refrigeretee lqr et York Thres list 91 the 10 best least 3 hours before serving. restaurants for that year, :writes. To .serve, looseh from edge_ of Eleanor Rickey Johnston 'in pan and tqlfuonto A' 'platter:' The Christian Science Monitor, Serves 712. 1 ' '• " ,'''' ''' 1 , • 11 ' ' ,.• : ...,--. . .': . - • ee e "Ladle's often, call -the day .1r ..: after they've eaten here and Should mokrriutin k -, - .• ask for recipes," the proprietors , ei_ee, ,e ----1-'-eee -' explained,' "I supply .?these, for ., ',Use, .!vicotn7mfash7;:, ,,,, I am glad for them to realize , how complicated: "some of ' our According to recent research French recipes are." by Dr: J. A. McKiel of the De- On the ''little dessert wagon partrnent Of ' National-" 'Health ., the waiter rolled to our table and Welfare, -When* a . female ,t li e Bavarian,' credal appeared. mosquito bites, you, . She doesn't He sliced 'it for us 'while we pomp,,a ,poisonous substance Y'' watched. Here is a basic Ba- into the wound. 'o* u scratch ' Varian Cream recipe, 'and the because `Of en allergic'reaCtien ', recipe for the . pink. mold foe- To rty and .locate "the Csciinc&•! , ' lows: ' of the' allergic material placed BAVARIAN Cit'EA1VI in the bite. wound; .Dr.,:lAcKiel , ' 1 envelope unflaVointed chopped ,tip 'about ,7;000,,mos-, gelatin, quitoes sinot head-arid-thorax and. , abdothinal t regriblite". tre'r thinif.S3'' 1;4 cup su g ar, div ided 11/8 teaspoon salt ' the source might bd. in the salt,: '2 Ogg, generated ; vary glatidg. 1)11' teetietlioilleint",,yeriilla it theethiethief, IS • caused, hylet the triesquito."senveletheil4PSt eit's ., 1 clip he,flify 'C'reffin, whipped clear ,”that a lot of huplan- MiX together getetite 1/4 can insect ill feellicOuld be,,,eVoide' eif eugar, and salt in a' sauce-, ed if che, pests could" he' tailtgbi pate Beat ;together :. egg ,yolks to Ogle regularly, pee and milk; add ,to gistiti mi..t- ture. Place` beret low beat, stir- ring genetetitly, until' gelatin i, diesOlVed, about 6 rnintit'eS, Re- Move from., beat; add' 'Vanilla, Chili Una tribttUre 'Mounds slightly; when's:4,0pol from a ,Stenon. ";eat AO whites, until but;•Zot add. terilainfitg 1/4- cup sugar and beat' tifitil ,yeeyeeetilf. !Fold- into- gelatiri Mbettite. 'peel T'ctlreaYilf _Fold iri hitt. "Pi5u8.i.ip ,,mold tere.hdiVidtial rtio),4e Until firm, itninold aed- :with; chocolate` _fruitiplaatice. (Bavarian Mixture May be turn- (' ed.( i'frifigt haked0 fry or „crytilt5,,t1m1.1,_, if y iOtl i tir;ef0, §ervos" 6'2g. iii frikT ARTY MOM) CUP Milk eei eieetemon 10x%-ounce Package a:..:deiriOn'StrAtion;':u3Lttrn relationships, what would you ' de if two of the second four peaches wire rotten?",, - "ThA'SJ *jusl. -What ehapPened". ,they were,"e "Did•veteetalee them back?;'- ""Nat yet, llotith -guars' ?,Looks to me as if you've 'started a perpetual motion -:deal' that keeps twipbad peaches in escrow all `the tifne. How are., , ?..'You.. ',going:to- wind this •tfling • tep?,."• "There's nothing -you can do about it. Junior tries to get loose fruit- but' lt-'to- tO him --all--•- package.5.1.,,. fourr, peacKeg'l "Seenise, t&• a*, case a •:two 'peaches',Snil fifty miles k•jt • 1') , lave . • t "Well, you have to go -bg-ek sooner or later anyway." "To get more rotten peaches?" There ensued a contarerable—, moment of reflective silence ;11. 'Whien'this'Inasculint. '-practical-'.- itY was mulled over by the fdinifil'ire'' 'kind; 'the only'. sound ,.,being; the .soft erackle ,the cruchy:wunchies .and the low complaint of the kettle on the stove.'e - We: have, a couple :of peach ..., trees, and .while this isn't peach country' they always manage to 'sef a• 'crep'." They •.'"are late;' artd we.'neVerThiek them until Octo- ber has grown chilly, and then 'theYliaere tb'e•eit Me` she'd 'a week .or ,so. J3ut I have never • -letioqn-these 'trees to' preiltice• -•- a rotten peach. I hav,e, had,, to go back and e'Xchalige any'. .• -The co?etimeing „eaffair with, Junior Nlotird, as seem the"se peaches, cable' due, ebneluded sontAoiy: It almost seemed as if there were „ no other way out. I fell to weliderideWhat could do about ' the liangnol; I .was reaching for a doughnut when " the visiting lady said, "Grapes are the same, I bought a package of grapes, and when I took the plastic off, they were in bad shape..". ." This Junior Must' be quite storekeeper. Neeet, time., dqwn that way I plan Stop and .get acquairited.'' knows about. bananas. John' Gould in The Christiari Science Moniqn. we* ISSUE 46 - 1959 r: "Now wait a minute," Old I. "Did you.7tekete.those two had eeaCheetbacro limier?" eSure. Heri.!:1 guarariteed them," 1 . 'What cli :lie do - give you tti more 1 .ohes?" f.!No. He le 'ii,'t. They come four to a package. What I had, to do was „buy 'four more, peaches, only I mid, , foyi„..ju,st r.rtwo,; Qt.. <:' 4 , • . them," ' x ', 1.,..G. 4. v.' -;', 4, 0 r' "They dOn't like to break e package of anything," said the :otbpr :.Iatly,:nee..z.eeeee.::fex,r,e, eee, 1 ...,!Alleriqeeliii4,ii, if some- 1110.--abOu pPg4Rit to m• • , e e# , 71. 1 Peaches, Bananas a ,..... nd Packagm ., otwithsteneling , grey sitnis spent to convince nie'othei.44 \eve, I think the. fruieke unde .... eeneath is the hest.;Partr of t e' .. • dry cereal deal, and I'm still up- eiet because. you can't get a der. cent 4 banana -4.:any more, About every morning, when I have a banana, I Say, "YOU don't get A-400 the way you, used to," 'rye teld this befo eeheit nobody i has done anyth g: ealieut" it, That's one of th 06.4i:faults with our society t -7". 041013'137 e, like me points the way 1p a great" improvement, and 'nobody does anything about it. ' Tb4n, again, I'd like to know Wlidt it is they. do to a banana , to make it -got'soft and smash up, instead of turning ripe, It must be an „expensive process arid fairly elaborate. I have an • idea, they gp to quite a bit of trouble, really,e -to fix bananas so I don't like" them, Well, anyway, the lady down the road who had dropped in ' that. nforningf, to watch me eat brealffast said; "Junior has good fruit, but even his bananas are likethat. Everything is in anack- ,, ,age. I hate epeckagere r, ,eg .,..• The other lacliAvho Wis pr's-" eat .said •"S‘o clO! „I, I've ) eedn dibi.e rotting _fruit, ,seems-so, f Since they began packa ging'' "°' ,, "Junior lets me take the rot- ' ma ones back," • -."I ,sh'd think .he: ee,OilIclee4Prily eit wo,uldn't be a case of letting rnee ,11 trot „Lem..-backeegood'.and.... fast. Sometimes half the fruit 1 bring home I. take right back: again,"' " "Wile,' don't you trot back* the rest of those bananas?" I asked, ) thinking ,of the way bananas, . used to mellow up without get- ting, mushy, and wondering just what a grocer does `with the '' fruit 'the ladies bring ha'ck to. 'him.'" ' "Well," one of them said, "there's nothing . wrong: with , those baneneeeereally. -.7 that's, .. the, way bananas 'are -now.eLe -'-' ' I 'don't happen to_ know who this 'Junior is, ,but it seemed- t`o me -he'd lot' Worked Tinto etteile kind of a left-handedelrefit busi- .ness, , in which the. quality: of his wares couldn't,.:lee foretold, I thought ,I'd ,epurstie , this. "Just how' 'does thie,..iunibi' 'go` '1.iioiit ethe .job of making you carry rot- . Jen. fruit home So- you, carry ;it , back to hine.again?". , ,- , "It's' the ':packages," ' , ' ; "Y4S, you see - everything is wrapped," "The other day," said the 'first' lady, "Junior said he'd guaran-, t. tes.jhe peaches were good% They .had kale _wrapped, in a, package,, so I' took four home, and when I opened them, two were all gone ''ba'd at the' bottbin." ' •Y ' "And you can't' seethem at the store.. When .peaches were'. out in„,the open, you could tell. It's not'"' Milt: TheY' come 'to him all wrapped." eteee,e .<• 1. .. _ - , rt•Or, „. counti ng ' vreP?6"g eete. .•- c6.§. kin utr a e „ et% in: Cairo is the ,„eare vt,,,,,,v1r. ithany. . 090,:g•n."cr(? 661'1'; 4114:.e.9.vre' Rtii..11::•'.1::::6;2115,t'910h,0e',„'''1... ‘• 1.1 — • •• tql 4 •tithe. • 0t Aic id'of r flier" the A.., PO, hmowitto!.., "'"a've ais r e 43• 1,01e imr.1.06r