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...alone. As simple an idea as the aerosol can, first used to spray insecticides during World War II, has puffed itself into a 600 million-can-a-year trade, spraying everything from athlete's-foot powder to instant starch. Even as insignificant an item as the ballpoint pen, which was written off as a national joke when it came out 15 years ago ("It will write under water, but that's the only place"), now sells at the rate of 657 million pens annually worth $142 million...
...perturbed to stand revealed, even before the first night, as, the playwright. Said he: "I didn't want the play produced under circumstances in which it would be praised by political friends and blasted by political enemies. I just wanted an unbiased judgment." Where did he get the pen name of Larry Sand? "That's what I was called when I did a little amateur boxing some years...
...attack the other by the fact that the road between Vientiane and Luangprabang was washed out by the monsoon. Most of the 28,000-man Laotian army scattered throughout the country either had not heard of the revolt at all or reacted with Laos' soft, favorite phrase, "be pen nyan [it doesn't matter]." To break this stalemate, Kongle suggested the formation of a new government headed by Prince Souvanna Phouma, half brother of the Communist Pathet Lao commander and onetime neutralist Premier of Laos. This suggestion worried the U.S. State Department, which now concedes that, despite...
...great economic leap, the Writers and Artists Union announced plans for a literary leap as well. Mao Tun, like others, was assigned his quota: one long novel, two of medium length. As everybody in the audience knew, Mao Tun has produced no novel since. In fact, the pen of China's most important living novelist has been curiously still ever since Communism took over...
...Daniel Parker, 35, became president and chief executive officer of Parker Pen Co., replacing Bruce M. Jeffris, the only non-Parker to hold the job, who becomes board chairman. Dan Parker is the grandson of George Parker, who founded the firm in 1888, and son of Kenneth Parker, who was board chairman until last month. Daniel Parker has been groomed for the top spot at Parker since boyhood. A Marine 2nd lieutenant in World War II. he attended Harvard Business School, joined the company in 1949 and was put in charge of foreign operations. Handsome and hardworking, he often arrives...