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Adlai Stevenson once said of Marietta Tree, "When you find someone closely identified with the intellectual and aristocratic communities who is also a positive, active, working Democrat, it tends to encourage everyone in the party." Mrs. Tree, 47, is a willowy...
...Marietta would be an addition to most any party, certainly not excluding those that she throws herself. She uses her opulent New York town house and her impeccable British butler, Collins, to entertain Democratic intellectuals and rank-and-file alike...
...pays $24,500 a year and makes Marietta Tree, once a LIFE researcher, one of just three women who currently hold a full ambassador's position...
Perfect Missile. A stern word from a boss started the whole Z.D. idea three years ago. At Martin Marietta's plant in Orlando, Fla., a quality control engineer named Philip Crosby had succeeded in cutting defects on Pershing missiles to half the acceptable level-but his boss complained that that was still too high. Incensed at first, Crosby soon began to agree: "If management tolerates a low standard, people work to that standard. Well, why not a no-defects job?" He persuaded workers in his department to sign no-defects pledges, soon surprised the Army by delivering a Pershing...
...troubles. The Bell Aerosystem's Hydro-skimmer was built for the Navy, but it is only one of a score of air-cushion vehicles now being developed for military and commercial usage by such old-hand defense contractors as Republic Aviation, Grumman Aircraft, General Dynamics and Martin-Marietta...