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...painters of miniatures. The enamel work, as Cellini described it a century later, was a painstaking process. First, he said, "you can grave on your plate anything that your heart delights in." The colored glass that is to form the enamel must be "well ground in a little round mortar with very clean water." The powdered glass is applied "as if you were painting in miniature." It should then be fused to the metal by firing it until the glass "begins to move" but not to "run." Other coats are applied and fired in the same...
...monsoon downpour rained on the Plain of Jars last week-and so did a barrage of Communist Pathet Lao artillery and mortar shells. In an effort to consolidate last month's ground gains on the Plain, the Reds began pinpoint artillery attacks on the last remaining Neutralist toe holds on the plateau, as well as on the headquarters of Neutralist Army Leader General Kong Le at Muong Phan, just west of the Plain. Typically, the Reds blamed the U.S. for the resumption of hostilities, said that "the Americans have given orders to the reactionaries of Kong Le to attack...
...economy, most of industry's capital spending will not go for expansion, as it always has before, but for modernization to make industry more efficient and competitive. About 70% of the programmed spending will go for new or better equipment instead of bricks and mortar. In today's economy, modernization is more vital to industry than ever before, because competition is fiercer than ever both at home and abroad. Inland Steel's Block competes against U.S. Steel's Roger Blough, but both have to compete against Japanese and German steelmakers; all the free world...
...Glory. We started the project at 8 p.m., and by 11 we had cut out and pasted to the walls of our living room 147 panels. These ranged from a buxom nurse giving a G.I. a shot of penicillin to a Communist guerrilla with his intestines exposed by mortar fire. The next day I stomped flat eleven empty cans. We stuck mostly to Campbell soup cans, but threw in a sweet potato can and a cardboard chow mein container for originality. These I nailed to the walnut paneling above the fireplace. When my wife returned from her trip...
...Most Distinguished." Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, the devil-may-care World War II hero who used 60-mm. mortar shells as hand grenades against the Germans, was there. So was Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington, the Marine ace who shot 28 Japanese planes out of the sky and destroyed another 24 on the ground. A reformed alcoholic, Boyington is now a successful public relations man in North Hollywood, Calif., but in casual clothes and bow tie he still looked like an adventurer about to sign up with the Flying Tigers. The oldest man in the garden was General Charles E. Kilbourne...