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Incense & Salamanders. Red China, which had been invited but did not respond until after the closing date for entries, sent nine "observers," who presented the federation with an engraved enamel incense burner and a red silk banner inscribed: "We wish the first Asian games success and the physical education workers of Asia to unite and strive for peace in Asia and all the world." They gave each team a blue flower vase, a set of Communist magazines called People's Pictorial, pictures of Mao Tse-tung, and on the closing night they gave a huge party. The Japanese...
...Canada. It turns out hundreds of products, ranging from bug poison to salad dressing, from lacquer to sex hormones. In the past two years, Glidden's new products have included a quick-drying paint (Spred Satin), sweetened coconut shreds that stay fresh until used, silicone enamel (a cross between porcelain and plastic used for washing machines, refrigerators, etc.), and a long-keeping commercial shortening for cooking. The latest project: an economical way to extract Cortisone from soybeans...
Four Keys to the Reliquary. Orvietans decided to build a cathedral (one of the most beautiful in all Italy) in which to keep their corporal. A Sienese artist, Ugolino di Vieri, was commissioned to make a reliquary to hold the corporal. Made of silver with exquisite enamel representations of Christ's Passion and tiny figures in true gold, the reliquary with the corporal has been Orvieto's proudest possession for more than six centuries. Because of a tendency by Orvieto's bishops to regard the reliquary as the exclusive possession of the church, there have been various...
...Really Safe Place." Devout Orvietan women began to show alarm. They were further stirred up when Mayor Gregori enlarged upon the dangers of travel, how shaking might crack the reliquary's enamel. A long unhappy wai went up from the women now crowding about Gregori. Said he: "Of course, you've the comfort that the relic is going to a really safe place." A shout went up filling the square. "They are going to keep our relic in Rome. Orvieto has lost it." Women in the crowd began furiously to beat on the cathedral door. Added Mayor Gregori...
Schmidt stumbled through the crowd with her two small sons by the hand. The boys carried a brown enamel soup can and tattered cloth shopping bags. The loudspeaker squawked again: "Paul Fehr. F-e-h-r." No one moved. A man's trembling voice spoke from the rear: "1st . . . nicht . . . mitgekommen [didn't come along]." As more names were read off, nearly half were "nicht mitgekommen" or "noch im Lager [still in camp...