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During its 13th century heyday as a Mediterranean trading power, Genoa came to be known as "La Superba" -which, since it can be taken to mean "the haughty," was not necessarily a compliment. Still, the appellation was particularly apt for Genoa's business men, a tightfisted, close-knit breed that ranked among the world's most con servative. Interested only in sure things, they earned a lasting distinction by re fusing to stake a local boy named Chris topher Columbus to a daring expedition...
Stoddard, on the other hand, is of another breed; the movement West, triggered by Greeley, came after the settlers in the wagon trains, and brought with it well-established Eastern customs. To Ford, Stoddard represents blind progress. Stoddard's first confrontation with Doniphon reveals absolutely no understanding between them; they eye each other as if the other were a strange animal...
Alumni magazines are thought of as a dreary and predictable breed of journals. Turn to page three and you'll find the news of the college, carefully edited to show the institution advancing on an even keel to educational greatness. Near the middle' will be an exhaustive report on the college's latest fund-raising campaign and then come page after page of class notes detailing the life records of hundreds of people you never knew...
...cardiac patients may wear internally implanted electronic pacemakers. Doctors are talking confidently of birth control without pills or intrauterine devices as they experiment with a space-perfected system for monitoring bodily temperature. Refined by aerospace engineers, lasers are finding more and more uses in surgery. Indeed, a whole new breed of medical man has emerged-the biomedical engineer, whose bag contains neither pills nor stethoscope, but electronic black boxes. With his help, aerospace contractors are turning out a remarkable array of prosthetic devices and diagnostic equipment...
...really nothing new. This one resembles, more than anything else, The Pink Panther, in which Peter Sellers created essentially the same character played by Jeffries. What with the widespread encroachment of the whole spy genre on other types of films, it is to be expected that a whole new breed of spy-hyphenates will soon arise: comedies, love stories, even westerns somehow managing to introduce an element of international intrigue...