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...nobility has grown so numerous that today it would take 16 double-decker buses to haul all the members of the peerage to the House of Lords. As Emerson observed in 1856, they belong to an "aristocracy with the doors open." In contrast with Europe's titled bluebloods, who are descended from a hereditary knightly caste formed between the 11th and 14th centuries, Britain's noblemen are two-a-penny come-latelies. Throughout the nation's history, Kings and, later, Prime Ministers have freely handed out titles to deserving-and undeserving-comers. George I even made "petticoat...
...Quandary of Surpluses. Chemical insecticides are now a necessary part of modern U.S. agriculture, whose near-miraculous efficiency has turned the ancient tragedy of recurrent famine into the biologically happy problem of what to do with food surpluses. Says Entomologist George C. Decker of the Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station: "If we in North America were to adopt a policy of 'Let nature take its course,' as some individuals thoughtlessly advocate, it is possible that these would-be experts would find disposing of the 200 million surplus human beings even more perplexing than the disposition of America...
Summoned five years ago to the office of William C. Decker, then president of Corning Glass Works, Research Director William H. Armistead listened wide-eyed to a short but characteristically pithy discourse. "Glass is a very good material," mused Decker. "It's transparent, it's inert [non-corrosive]-but it breaks. Why don't you fix that?" Last week Corning announced that its scientists had come remarkably close to filling Decker's improbable order with a chemically strengthened glass called Chemcor. In a demonstration session at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, Corning executives bent, twisted...
...Yankee named Amory Houghton, Corning is still controlled by the Houghton family, whose members are estimated to own 40% of its stock (worth roughly $440 million). Its current president is a great-great-grandson of the original Amory, boyishly intense Amory ("Amo") Houghton Jr., 36, who stepped up after Decker, 61, was named chairman last year. Like his predecessors, Amo Houghton is dedicated to the formula of freewheeling, long-range basic-research spending-he is fond of calling it "patient money"-that has become Corning's hallmark. Currently, Corning's research and development bill is running...
Skinny Candidate. Powers was an unemployed Air Force veteran living with his sister back in 1946 when a young man appeared at the door of their Charlestown three-decker and said: "My name is John Kennedy. I'm going to be a candidate for Congress, and I'd like to have you with me." The meeting turned into friendship, and Powers, who was said to know almost everyone in Charlestown by his first name, soon was leading Kennedy up and down the back steps of the neighborhood's countless three-deckers, popping into kitchens where neighbors pledged...