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...sounds of that city as did Vittore Carpaccio. He obviously loved Venice's busy canals, its processions and pageantry, its fairy-tale architecture-almost every aspect of the place, in fact, down to the brightness of its gondoliers' jerkins and the workmanship of a beautifully wrought bolt on a door. Last week Venice returned the compliment by opening in the Doge's Palace the biggest Carpaccio exhibition ever held (see color...
...ordered his Congressmen-elect to renounce their seats, disguised himself as an Indian and raced off to the rebellion-prone city of Arequipa to throw up revolutionary barricades-an erratic performance that caused many moderates to question his sense of responsibility and prompted 34 of his Congressmen to bolt the party...
...Daunsers presented one form of religiosity, that of intellectual pretentiousness; Pelagia displays a quite different one, the Christianity of Main Street. But while the Daunsers had real dramatic power, Pelagia had no such compensation. An intelligent listener will bolt from it in disgust and, if he is a Christian, with near anger...
...Gagging geese in Strasbourg are force fed by husky women who stuff funnels down their gullets, the better to make foie gras. A herd of hefty women on the Bismarck Archipelago bolt down endless helpings of tapioca, the better to make fat wives for the scrawny chieftain...
...time to perfect it into a delicate science. G.M. plots its operations department by department four months in advance, budgets man-hours and unit parts down to a fraction of a penny. Under this system, G.M.'s financial men also dog the designers, figure the cost of every bolt, chrome strip and screw, and have unit costs tallied well in advance of final pricing. G.M. thus knows its break-even point precisely: when it sells 2,500,000 units or achieves $7 billion in net sales. In 1962 it sold 2,739,000 beyond that point-and the profit...