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Glassmakers of ancient Venice maintained world superiority quite simply: craftsmen caught spiriting trade secrets out of Venice were made galley slaves or killed by hired assassins. In the modern world of sheet glass, Britain's Pilkington Brothers, Ltd., maintains a comparable superiority in a more humane way: the company consistently outdoes rivals in research and development...
...self-contained, $13,000 Cortez bus camper, while their three children splashed in the swimming pool at Florida's Fiesta Key Resort. Near by, Joseph Haigh and his wife took the sun beside their Dodge camper, a 27-ft.-long bus that, when fully equipped with stainless-steel galley, stall shower, toilet and bunks for six, can cost more than $16,000. "We're land cruisers now," says Haigh, who gave up a lifetime of boating after it got to be too much work...
Duty & Dogs. In the enlisted ranks, few Negro G.I.s are better known than Sergeant Lonnie Galley Samuel, another Silver Star winner, who leads a "Blue Team" of an Air Cav battalion. His job: to draw enemy fire from a chopper, then land and engage in hopes of provoking a major battle ("Sam" has provoked a batch in the past year). Asked why he does not apply for a commission, Sam, at 41, laughs: "I can't do that, man. I'd be the oldest lieutenant in the Army...
Lederer has sometimes found his role as foreign policy critic advantageous. Shortly after writing "A Nation of Sheep" in 1962, he dropped by the White House to visit a Kennedy aide. As Lederer tells the story, the President, carrying galley proofs of the book, emerged from his office to meet the author. The President, Lederer recalls, liked the book "and asked me if I knew what the British had done in Malaya. I said that I did, but that it would take me a few minutes to write it down. He took me to his office...
...more than a slight deafness that often made him amplify his voice even beyond its usual foghorn level. Asked not long ago if he had plans for expansion, Bean bellowed: "Yes, we have some suspenders in the catalogue." The catalogue was his pride and joy, and Bean recently read galley proofs of the 100-page spring 1967 edition, which came out last week-the day after its originator's simple funeral in his beloved snow-covered Maine woods...