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...Truman Library in Independence noticed a get-right-with-Truman surge about the time of Jerry Ford, who insisted on having his portrait in the Cabinet Room. Jimmy Carter asked for Truman's THE BUCK STOPS HERE sign. The library sent him a facsimile. Ronald Reagan had a paperweight on his desk that said THE BUCKAROO STOPS HERE. Bush had McCullough into the White House for a Truman lecture, set up Harry's portrait in the East Room and happily hovered around...
...flowers' appeal, though, was restricted to paperweight collectors; not a world of the arts, but more one of solid, practical investment, rather like that of collecting Christmas plates. Eight years ago, Stankard began encasing his flowers in a crystal block about six inches high, three inches wide. As this new form evolved, he began laminating the blocks with translucent dark green glass on three sides, giving the impression that the plants and their roots are suspended in space, released from their glass prison. The form, which Stankard calls a cloistered botanical, brought his work to the attention of collectors...
...finds the boss pacing inside. His report was due an hour ago, he is told; the client is furious. If he values his job, he had better have a good explanation. And, by the way, he can forget about taking a vacation this summer. The man eyes a paperweight on his desk and longs to throw it at his oppressor. Instead, he sits down, his stomach churning, his back muscles knotting, his blood pressure climbing. He reaches for a Maalox and an aspirin and has a sudden yearning for a dry martini, straight...
United Technologies (1982 sales: $13.6 billion) may be the first giant U.S. industrial corporation to attempt so broad an experiment with personal computers. For many executives around the country, the desktop device is little more than an expensive paperweight. The reason is that they spend much of their time on supervisory or policymaking tasks. They depend on subordinates to perform the kind of data manipulation and word processing that computers do best. So while computers are commonplace at lower corporate levels, they are not routinely used in the executive suite at such companies as Exxon, General Motors and Du Pont...
...would say to myself. The copper peace bell in the garden is made of the melted down pennies given by children all over the world, I'd mumble half-aloud. I would always know just where in the gift shop to find the colorful flags-of-all-nations combination paperweight and pencil holders...