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...portrait of a pretty girl. The artist who painted it is a onetime photo-reconnaissance officer named John Merton. He sat his subject in a dentist's chair, made 100 three-dimensional photographs of her, worked 1,500 hours while playing Bach, Beethoven and Mozart on his hifi. The girl is Lady Dalkeith, 26, a former fashion model and daughter of a Scottish barrister. In 1953's flossiest British wedding, attended by Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and 1,600 other guests, she married Margaret's front-running suitor, rangy, redheaded Walter Francis John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Earl...
...tries manfully not to blubber ("They don't want me any more"), and his wife takes dismal, comical inventory of the monthly payments they must meet. "Well, there's the new hot-water heater . . . the garbage-disposal unit, the washer and dryer, the TV and the hifi, the new divan and those silly chairs that match, the gas range, the Deepfreeze, the power mower, the electric barbecue, the dining suite, the bedroom suite ..." The only thing they can do, the husband ruefully decides, is cut down on luxuries-like food...
...rhymes with cue) of Western Illinois University. A skinny, owlish man of 59, he runs his compact (2,600 students) campus in Macomb (pop. 10,592) as if he, and not the state, were the owner. When he is not enjoying his paneled and well-equipped office (TV, hifi, radio, air conditioning), he is apt to be stomping about outside, shooting at pigeons with a shotgun, or scaring away stray dogs with a BB gun ("I don't see anything wrong with that. Some have hydrophobia"). One apocryphal story has it that on one pigeon shoot he accidentally pinked...
...Harvard, the drama is booming, with more than 25 student productions scheduled during the year. From Dartmouth to the University of Kansas to the University of Texas, more concerts are given, more students attend, and when the campus string quartet is not in session, one simply switches on the hifi. But in general, the thing to be, on the subject of art-or on any subject, for that matter-is casual. "Anything that is in any way heroic or looks heroic," says Philosophy Major Peter Gunter of the University of Texas, "thumbs down. Don't ever stand...
...assembly-line wages had risen from 40? to $2 an hour. Then Percy went to work simplifying his machines. Simultaneously, he sharply increased Bell & Howell's research budget, and pushed the company into new product lines, such as slide projectors, tape recorders, and for a time de luxe hifi. In Percy's first year, sales jumped 28% to $16.9 million...