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...largely an unknown quantity himself. He has met nearly every Foreign Minister on earth. After the U.N. convened in September, he chatted privately with some 70 of them in a hectic nine-day stretch, kept so tight a schedule that one U.S. official compared his outer office to "a dentist's waiting room." Despite his distaste for "personal" diplomacy, he has logged nearly 100,000 miles a year in trips abroad...
...When I read the story of Pele, the "criminal" donkey [Nov. 15], I was reminded of a similar story of a persecuted donkey by the German author Christolph Martin Wieland. In Geschichte der Abderiten, he intended to point out absurdities of small-town government and life. A Grecian dentist named Struthion and a donkey driver nearly came to blows over whether or not Struthion might stand in the shadow of his rented donkey since he had not rented the shadow as well. Struthion felt that the donkey came with the shadow...
...sets this year. RCA will market about 500,000 color sets in 1963, but Wright has broken its monopoly in color TV tubes by building a plant to supply half of Zenith's tubes. Joe Wright has an unlikely background for an executive. Son of a Montana dentist, he worked through law school as an aide to Montana Senator Burton K. Wheeler in the 1930s, later became an antitrust lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission, where he tangled with many businessmen-including U.S. Steel Counsel Roger Blough, who lost to Wright in a steel-pricing case. Changing sides...
...choirmaster since 1957 and a professor of music at the University of Utah. He directs 375 singers, divided into four-part men's and four-part women's choruses. All members are adult volunteers, including many housewives, but also four doctors, three lawyers, two bankers and one dentist-plus a glass blower and a hog caller...
They fed her to the M-G-M dentist, who inspected her even and shining teeth and found two infinitesimal spaces, which he capped. Seven different ways they set her hair, decided on one of them, and lightened it beyond all taint of nature...