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After midnight, two FBI agents slipped into the backyard of a trim white bungalow on the outskirts of St. Joseph, Mo., tried the locked doors of the darkened house, inspected'the yard until their flashlights' beams came to a cluster of wilting yellow chrysanthemums by the back porch. Shoveling the flowers aside, the agents started digging. As the sun came up, they stopped and waited until a workman, Claude James, came along the street. They gave him a job: digging for the body of six-year-old Bobby Greenlease, murdered by kidnapers who had planted the chrysanthemums over...
...more than a year, Britain has carried on a sort of comic-opera blockade around the oasis of Buraimi. a cluster of 8,000 Arabs in mud-walled villages not far from the Persian Gulf. Last week the blockade abruptly lost its comic flavor. There was shooting in the desert and blood on the sand...
Visitors can walk through stately halls and a network of chapels and oracle rooms, still paved with mosaics, where worshipers asked the advice of the goddess. The temple must have been, also, rather like a pagan Lourdes, where pilgrims prayed for relief from bodily ailments. The many shops that cluster thickly around the shrines supplied votive offerings of clay, marble, silver or gold shaped realistically to represent afflicted parts of the human body. Some of these grisly, pathetic objects still remain after 14 centuries...
...reason McElroy seldom becomes excited in the excitable world of soap is that Procter & Gamble has been decentralized until it is virtually a cluster of separate organizations, each with its own boss. For every P. & G. product, there is a "brand man" who takes full responsibility for results. If sales slip, it is up to the brand man to find out why. If an ad goes sour, the brand man gets on the agency's back. If more production is needed, it is up to him to try to get it. And when a competing company puts...
...principal changes: 1) three new ministers (for food, education and agriculture) were promoted to Cabinet rank, including Minister of Education Florence Horsbrugh, first woman ever admitted to a Conservative Cabinet; 2) the "overlordship" system-a Churchill invention under which a Cabinet officer supervises a cluster of related departments, but has no direct control over any of them-was dropped as a failure, and so were two overlords, Lord Leathers and Sir Arthur Salter; 3) a saving of $26,600 a year in salaries was effected, to the delight of economy-minded Sir Winston...