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...number of choppers in use in Viet Nam. They range from scores of workaday Hueys to 48 Chinook transport copters with a lift capacity of some 13,000 Ibs., the first to arrive in Viet Nam. Four of the First's helicopters are the only ones of their breed in the world: giant...
PAINTING One wonders whether he asked them to hold their pose, or jotted it down in a hasty sketch and later recalled it the tranquillity of his studio. But there they are, for all time, transfixed on a roseate, smoky day: the fur trader puffing his pipe, his half-breed son derisively peering at the artist, and the huddled bear cub chained to the bow of the dugout. The river is the Missouri; the year is 1845, and the painter, who by his art has enshrined a timeless moment by on the frontier, is George Caleb Bingham (see opposite page...
Thus there is a new breed of sailor that doesn't sail-at least not much or far. Says Dave Parker, executive vice president of the Hatteras Yacht Co.: "People who buy these yachts aren't sailors-they're landlubbers. They like to get there fast and drink long." And to enjoy Beethoven in stereo and bourbon on the rocks, the owner of a modern yacht must hook up to a marina's power line (and he often wants a telephone line) almost as soon as he shuts off his engine; his appliances draw too much...
Price wars are a way of life for Fritz-Karl Schulte, 40, a leader among the restless breed of West German entrepreneurs who have cut consumer costs by introducing modern production and merchandising methods. One of the first things he did when he took over his father's struggling knitting mill in 1956 was to begin selling seamless nylon stockings in supermarkets for 750 a pair−half the standard price. Today, every other pair of women's hosiery sold in West Germany is made by his firm, Schulte & Dieckhoff, whose sales have increased twentyfold in the past...
...American family as an instrument of repression was almost extinct, leaving the young intellectuals with no firm social structure to rebel against. Perhaps for this reason, perhaps because Jane Addams was not the daughter of an overbearing Breueresque daddy, the Freudian discovery of the inner self did not breed a characteristically European pessimism when it reached these shores, but instead sparked the effort to recover a lost state of bliss, a pre-adolescent Eden that had never felt the dead hand of patriarchal restraint. What developed instead of a sense of cosmic fatalism (and its consequent strain of apocalyptic rebellion...