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Industry and government officials say there is no institution of comparable stature where determined college graduates may so effectively groom themselves for a lucrative career abroad. Senator Goldwater predicts that most Americans who become business leaders in trade centers around the world in the next few years will have been trained "specifically at The American Institute for Foreign Trade." (For more detailed information, please communicate with The Registrar, The American Institute for Foreign Trade, U. O. Box 191, Phoenix, Arizona; telephone...
...sight of the king was allowed to keep his victim's skull as a drinking bowl. When the king pronounced the death penalty on a person, he also automatically condemned to death all of the man's male relatives. Scythian kings never died alone. The head groom, the head cupbearer, the head cook and at least one wife were killed when he died...
Jean Kerr herself stopped tintinnabu-lating once just long enough to get married. It was a wise decision, since the groom was a careful, analytical college professor who has always looked after her with extraordinary attentiveness. That and nearly everything else about her was summed up a while ago in a quick exchange while the Kerrs were crossing a Manhattan street?her swift-rising wisecracks, her devotion to her husband, the graceful way she wears her fame...
...Groom, the Kerrs' most important asset after their talent. "Mrs. Kerr is a real gay gal," says Mabel?but not in the early hours of her day. Then, like the heroine of Mary, Mary, she doesn't grasp things: "I hear voices all right, but I can't pick out the verbs." After an urn or two of coffee, she begins to pick them out?on a typewriter in the third-floor master bedroom. She has given up using the celebrated Chevrolet as an office, "because I ran out of places to park. People would drive past and wave...
...hunted with the Orange County Hunt, to which she subscribes ($300 a year, plus the same amount for a groom or Secret Service man). Hounds met at Roger Lambdon's Gotland farm...