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Until now, scholars have had to work with a Chinese dictionary written about 100 A.D. that provides little or no help in deciphering texts predating two centuries B.C. Jao estimates that the Ch'u Silk Manuscript will reveal the meanings of 300 hitherto-undefined characters. Working with infra-red photographs, which help make the characters legible, Jao has begun translating the manuscript into modern Chinese. Dr. Noel Barnard, a senior fellow in Far Eastern history at Australian National University, is converting it into "pidgin English...
Invitations were already out from the rival stores, Alexander's and Ohrbach's, not only for big press showings of originals and their duplicates in mid-September, but also to such big names as the Duchess of Windsor and Mrs. Nel son Rockefeller, who would help attract a glittering crowd to public displays a week later. Though the original dresses had sold in Paris for between $700 and $5,000, Ohrbach's and Alexander's copies, made from the same French fabrics and virtually impossible to tell from the originals, would sell...
...Reuther, too, is under pressure-though in his case it is pride and power, not profits, that are at stake. For one thing, a smashing victory in Detroit would help his running war with George Meany, 73, and the aging A.F.L.-C.I.O. hierarchy, which he charges is in need of "rejuvenation." Then again, he has an aging problem of his own. More than 40% of the U.A.W.'s 1,500,000 members are under 30, whereas Reuther turns 60 on Sept. 1. He is having particular trouble with the 200,000 U.A.W. skilled tradesmen, who long...
Kaiser was quietly proud that he was successful in spite of being a high-school dropout. He left school in upstate New York at 13 to help support the family. Henry worked his way West, signed on with a paving contractor, established his own company at 32, and lined up his first contract-for two miles of street in Vancouver. Because speed was worth money, he always made it a point to finish jobs ahead of time; on a California paving contract he laid a mile a week instead of the usual two miles a month, was constantly visited...
...warmer climate generally calls for light er fabrics. Another is that they do not understand the quantities in which the U.S. buys. "When the U.S. wants fish hooks," an American buyer recently told a visiting British businessman, "she wants them in millions." To provide the millions-and to help their nation improve its trade balance-a group of Britons has organized a marketing company called Lion & Unicorn, Ltd. after the royal coat of arms...