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Looking for a mica miner in the Malagasy Republic? Need to find a chemical plant in Czechoslovakia? Like to buy a typewriter in Thailand? Anyone can find these three-and 2,900 other categories of business in 136 countries-by thumbing through a new kind of directory called the International Yellow Pages. Conceived by Robert A. Nellson, 50, a Rochester, N.Y., advertising executive, International Yellow Pages has gone through two editions since it was first published in 1963. A new and bigger third edition is now being prepared; it will contain 540,000 listings (including country, town, street address...
...After-dark activity is limited, but a square dance, movie or concert generally can be found. During the day there is fishing, boating, horseback riding and nature hikes conducted by park rangers, but a favorite pastime of almost everybody is simply sitting and staring in disbelief at the spectacular, mica-strewn Teton Range, known to the Indians as "the Big Shining Mountains," and often roguishly described by airline stewardesses as "the Sweater Girl Mountains...
Building: the flakes of mica...
Rich men have had them for centuries; Tiberius Caesar raised cucumbers in a mica-covered "forcing house" when his doctor advised him to eat warm-weather vegetables the year round. But today more and more families who measure their estates in feet rather than acres are buying prefab greenhouses for the cost of a secondhand car or less, and filling the house with chrysanthemums, African violets or glossy greenery while the snow flies...
Self-Starting Students. "I don't think I would be allowed to study what I want like this anywhere else," says Micaéla Székely, a charming exchange student from the University of Paris, with degrees in philosophy and political science. Student Székely, who aims to chart the links between politics and literature in 19th century England, is leery of simple generalization, but says: "This is different. Here you must know something before you can cross the lines; you must have the background. It is hard, but it is done right...