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ALONG with the other paraphernalia on his round marble-top executive desk, Union Carbide President Birny Mason Jr., 54, keeps both a crystal ball and a slide rule. The crystal ball, a gift from Predecessor Morse G. Dial, is a conversation piece. The slide rule helps onetime Research Engineer Mason keep track of finances in the nation's second largest chemical firm, which last week announced earnings of $160 million on 1963 sales of $1.67 billion. Another figure that enters into Mason's current calculations is $200 million-the amount that Union Carbide intends to borrow from insurance...
There are other players on the Princeton team besides Bradley. Complementing the Crystal City, Mo., miracle worker will be a quartet with the ad-agency ring of Hasrlow, Howard, Rodenbach and Roth...
...little of "the pleasure of sweetness" that Menotti intended. A month of rehearsals under the sure hand of Thomas Schippers, excellent performances by Peters, Meredith and London, some last-minute opera-doctoring by Menotti, sets and costumes by Beni Montresor that looked like a world perceived inside a crystal Easter egg-nothing could rescue the Savage from its basic banality...
Belly Dancers, Dragons. Ever since Prince Albert masterminded the first one at London's Crystal Palace in 1851, world's fairs have been almost as frequent as revolutions. Many have influenced the architecture, the entertainment tastes and the commerce of their day. In the U.S., the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, with its acres of white plaster palaces, has been accused of setting the cause of modern architecture back by generations; it also established the belly dance...
...their offbeat reputations, such judges are also capable of making practical use of their antic imaginations. Judge Gillis, the crystal ball man, reached a Solomonic judgment in the case of two men brought before him on charges of shooting dice. When the judge asked who owned the dice, each defendant pointed to the other. Gillis then ordered the policeman who was holding the dice to return them to the owner. One of the accused men reached out his hand. Gillis briskly pointed a finger at him and said: "Thirty days...