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...missionaries flew over Auca country in a Piper Family Cruiser, shouting down greetings in Auca over a loudspeaker and dropping gifts of machetes, bright beads and clothing in a canvas bucket with a line so long that the light plane could wait, circling, while the Indians emptied the pail. One afternoon, catching on, the Aucas responded by sending up some presents of their own: feathers, birds and food. Thus encouraged, the Americans a fortnight ago landed hopefully on a length of the sandy beach of the River Curaray...
Under Kramer's apron they found a rubber hot-water bottle filled with preheated cream. A long, thin tube led from the bottle through the hay at Marie's feet and into the milking pail. By pressing the bottle with his forearms as he leaned forward to strip Marie, the milker could send squirts of cream into his milking pail. With this evidence in hand, the gendarmes bustled Kramer off to jail on the charge of fraud, and the dairymen of Normandy, with the solemnity demanded of the occasion, took steps to drop the name and claim...
Diet. In London, Judge Henry Grazebrook gave a divorce to Robert E. Want, 54, after Want explained that his wife had packed his lunchbox with mud sandwiches, filled his tea thermos with broken glass, dumped a pail of garbage...
...Life. In Orlando, Fla., when sheriff's deputies found E. R. Kriss beating lustily on the lid of a garbage pail and howling like a dog, Kriss explained that he wanted to get even with his neighbor's hound, which had kept him awake by barking...
...fame grew, boatbuilders came from Scandinavia and Scotland to work for him. Nevins knew every employee by his first name. Even after he became a millionaire, he often brought his own lunch pail to work, ate outside with the loftsmen and mechanics. His friendship and personal ability invited them to do their best work; his high standards demanded it. Once he set down this principle: "The man who builds . . . yachts is a craftsman; outside of yacht building, there are few craft industries left. A good craftsman must have, first of all, a basic sense of integrity and pride...