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Bronze Ring. One of the last Americans to leave Japan before Pearl Harbor, Gilbertson enlisted in the Navy and was sent straight back to the Orient as an intelligence officer. After the war he stayed on for a year in Korea. Throughout his adventures, Gilbertson kept exploring the secrets of his craft. "In the Orient," he explains, "you can always find people who share your passion for ceramics and will discuss them by the hour. China has as many collectors of ceramics as we have chamber music fans...
Native's Return. Muntz, born in Elgin, Ill., was 20 when he started his used-car business there. Seven years later he opened a lot in Los Angeles. As a speculation, he bought 13 new, war-stranded, right-hand-drive cars which had been built for the Orient, including a custom-built Lincoln intended for Chiang Kaishek. When Los Angeles papers ran stories about the cars, Muntz sold the entire lot in two weeks without even unpacking all the crates, made a tidy profit...
...nighttime when Dr. John Appleby, 61, a veteran surgeon of Bellevue, Ohio, stepped off the Orient Express in Vienna. There was no one to meet him because nobody expected him; he was simply another American doctor beating a path to Vienna to learn something of what can again be learned in the onetime capital of European medical science. Dr. Appleby took a cab to the newly opened clubrooms of the American Medical Society of Vienna. Next morning, after a minimum of red tape, he stood at the side of one of Vienna's leading surgeons during a difficult heart...
Boxcars to Breakfast. At 4 a.m. the floor was cleared for more dancing-much more enthusiastic dancing than at the gym-and at 5 o'clock the party moved to the depot for a train "trip to the Orient" (Orient being a hamlet twelve miles away). The orchestra hit it up in a boxcar between two coaches, and the boys & girls who were too weary to dance either necked or threw confetti out the windows on the sleeping countryside. Two hours later, as the train clattered back into Creston, past the water tower, the band broke into Auld Lang...
...Human groups grown powerful are primarily interested in education for their self-perpetuation, i.e., for the perpetuation of the forms which preserve and extend their power. Their goals are largely static in that they orient not toward expansion and development of human potentialities in the planetary community, but toward status quo preservation; regardless of what 'objective study and conscientious investigation' may suggest. Education for freedom and mature adulthood is obviously not compatible with an inflexible socio-cultural milieu hostile to all change which might affect its structural lineaments...