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...natives, who have treasured it as a good-luck hairpiece for some 250 years, believe to be a genuine yeti remain. To get the scalp, Hillary had to do some sharp bargaining with local witch doctors, who feared that disaster might strike if the scalp were taken from their domain. In the end, he got the trinket on a month's loan by promising a donation to a village shrine, guaranteeing an education for a local lad and agreeing that a village elder could accompany the scalp to Chicago, where it will be examined by scientists...
...when U.S. art galleries were the private preserve of the plutocracy, an $18-a-week office worker named Edith Halpert ventured uneasily into the domain of Manhattan Dealer Joseph Brummer, offered him a down payment on a then $650 Seurat. Growled Brummer contemptuously: "Go to Macy...
...Zones. The jet age has narrowed the vast Pacific Ocean to a sleeper jump. Bustling Hong Kong, served by 1,000 flights a month, is 14 hours from San Francisco, only 18½ hours over the North Pole from New York City. The Far East used to be the domain of the reckless adventurer or the traveler who could afford the money and leisure for a two-month cruise. Now Tokyo, Bangkok and Hong Kong are as accessible as Paris, Rome or London. Ten thousand tourists a week pour into the Orient, and many, traveling economy class, pay as little...
...from author's rights. To his dismay, Malraux found French letters in a sad state. Only 150 writers in all France qualified under the definition-and about 80% of these were either mystery-plotting hacks or vulgarizers of other works. Moaned he: "Who will deny that in this domain, statistics lead to the absurd? The problem of true writers would not have been resolved. There are many who, in order to live, must ply a second trade." In his own second-trade capacity as a Cabinet minister, Writer Malraux made a painful decision: No writer, good or bad, will...
...confines, under its falconry of white clouds, like a tax-free domain and like entailed land, like a province of rank weeds that was wagered on the dice...