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...Charles traveled to the far corners of his land persuading tribal chiefs to end their wars and forswear headhunting. When they protested that their enemies' heads were needed to propitiate the gods, the rajah ordered his English civil servants to stockpile mummified leftovers from previous wars and to lend them out to the villagers as needed. From his handsome riverside fortress in Kuching, he brought modest prosperity to the kingdom by exploiting its oil and rubber resources as well as diamonds, birds' nests (for Chinese gourmets) and gutta-percha (for golf balls). In 1941, celebrating the 100th anniversary...
...Dadaism to sur realism, but it was Dada that shaped him most. He was one of the few American members of the original school, and for him it never really died: his determined disrespect for the materials of art and deep attention to the ideas that art can shape lend the current collection its saving measure of excitement. In Optical Hopes and Illusions, bicycle riders ride cross-canvas to turn into eyeglasses. Etcetera seems nothing more than a row of bright blue buildings, ends up spelling out its title. Making the Fur Fly, Ray's homage to Georges Braque...
...providing himself with a club with which to clip Otto Passman, chairman of the Foreign Aid Appropriations subcommittee, behind the ear. The Committee, which would surely recommend a few minor cuts in expenditure and give the rest of foreign aid its blessing, would at last lend the programs an appearance respectable enough to cow the Congress...
Trading Up. Borrowing to finance a car is also easier because bankers are overstocked with deposits on which they pay 4% interest, and are eager to lend out at an auto loan rate that, in effect, amounts to 8.2%. Though some lenders are accepting many credit risks that they once thumbed down, they estimate that the rate of car repossessions has shrunk to a remarkably low 590 per 100,000 sales-one-third less than in 1961-while total auto installment credit hit a record of close to $20 billion in February. One reason: personal income is up 4% from...
...briefly held a State Department job, accompanied Vice President Johnson on a round-the-world trip. When old Joe Kennedy suffered a stroke in December 1961, Smith moved to New York to oversee some Kennedy financial enterprises. But last summer he turned up again in Boston-this time to lend his now mature experience to ironing out the wrinkles in Teddy Kennedy's victorious senatorial campaign...