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Anyone who spends time with arbiters of etiquette learns quickly that behavior experts are not easily topped. Washington Correspondent Carolyn Lesh, one member of the TIME team that reported this week's cover story on the revival of interest in proper behavior, accompanied Judith Martin on a promotion tour for her new book, Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children. "She has excruciatingly correct manners," says Lesh, "but once, when we were in a store and a clerk mumbled, Martin responded with a 'What?' Later I asked 'Shouldn't you have said, Pardon...
...Lesh discovered that Miss Manners' fabled aplomb is bolstered by a ready wit. "Lost in a taxi in a seedy Chicago neighborhood on a Sunday night," Lesh recounts, "we were startled when an egg suddenly splattered on the windshield. Said Martin: 'It couldn't have been for me. I ordered bacon...
Reported by Dan Goodgame/Los Angeles, Carolyn Lesh/ Washington and Adam Zagorin/New York
...like other citizens, many of them worry about the capacity of the U.S. to absorb, economically and socially, an uncontrolled flow of aliens. Says Congressman Green: "The bill is not a cureall, but it's better than what we have now." -By George J. Church. Reported by Carolyn Lesh and Neil MacNeil/Washington, with other bureaus
...saving to employees in the form of company stock. The value of TRASOP to employees is lessened by the fact that they get the shares only when they leave the company. While this and other new departures in pay are engaging enough, most earners would probably agree with Daniel Lesh, manager of compensation at Honeywell Inc. Says...