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...forced into close, catalytic quarters. Favorite places to bring out the best and worst in people have been ships, planes, hotels, tropic outposts, small combat units, African safaris. It remained for Novelist John (A Bell for Adano, The Wall) Hersey to put his characters to the test in a modern-day woodchuck roundup. None of the people in The Marmot Drive like each other very much to begin with. When Hester comes up from New York for a weekend at the out-of-the-way small town of Tunxis, Conn., it is to meet the family of Eben, a moody...
...look to for leadership at North American itself is Board Chairman James Howard ("Dutch") Kindelberger, 58, a beefy (6 ft., 194 Ibs.), salty-tongued West Virginian whose fringe of white hair and twinkling blue eyes make him look like a modern-day Friar Tuck. Kindel-berger, who learned to fly in World War I. has devoted his life to turning out better and faster planes...
...went his power company, Ham Moses organized the economic council, a private organization, and got the state to set up a similar body. The two groups started helping communities help themselves, conducted "foreign" capitalists on tours of the state to show its progress. Nondrinking, nonsmoking Ham Moses became a modern-day Arkansas traveler, ran some of the tours himself in his chauffeur-driven Chrysler, which has a built-in ice box always stocked with Coca-Cola...
...That is the wonder of the modern-day fairy-land that is a New Hampshire or Vermont ski resort. Whether it's a chair lift, a rope tow, or a T-bar, there they all are. All types ride the tow. And here is where the basic purpose of the skier comes to the surface...
...Canadian Club in Ottawa: "We are blessed in this era with a form of diplomatic communication which is faster than instantaneous. I refer to the press, which . . . often precedes the event, and sometimes reliably. Indeed the press rumor or 'leak' has become an almost indispensable adjunct of modern-day diplomacy. Perhaps this is . . . Government austerity designed to reduce cable tolls. In any case, there is no diplomatic interchange . . . not preceded by, enlarged by . . . or nullified by . . . press rumors, speculations or leaks, propelled like those pneumatic tubes in the department stores, by air-mostly...