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...Hard Feelings. Many obstacles remain to the full resumption of Dutch-Indonesian trade because, as one Dutch businessman puts it, "You cannot pluck feathers from a frog." Yet the Dutch recognize Indonesia's great trade potential and seem determined to play as large a role in restoring trade as Sukarno will allow. KLM has resumed twice-weekly flights to Djakarta. Djakarta's once large Dutch community, depleted when 200,000 Dutch left Indonesia in 1958, is growing again. Dutch newspapers and candies have reappeared in major Indonesian cities, and Djakarta radio recently played the Dutch national anthem...
...least in childhood, been fascinated by the medieval knight, his squire and yeoman, and the strange tools they used in war? Cuirass and helmet, shield and sword. Chain mail, longbow, harquebus, pike-and the thin-bladed misericord that could slip between the plates to pluck a man's life from his ribs. The battle-dented, brutally functional field armor of the 14th century; the intricately inlaid and painted parade armor of the 16th. Both of these accounts of arms and armor cover the ground well...
...Silverstein and his delicatessen have since passed into oblivion. But Charles Harting Percy did not. He applied himself, worked hard and persevered, and by dint of luck and pluck became a wealthy, successful businessman who is now the Republican candidate for Governor in his home state of Illinois, and-who knows?-may become something even bigger before he turns 50. To this day, Percy recalls his conversation with Mr. Silverstein. "I've never forgotten this," he says, "because he was right. It's fun working when you're working for yourself. Having your own equity, working your...
...father and mother were divorced when she was eleven. Her mother remarried and moved to Florida, where Carroll met a magician called The Great Volta. Volta trained her to do her own magic act. She could pluck priceless treasures out of thin air, or shake up a boxful of loose stones, reach in, and remove a tiara. All this was done by wires and other devices, since Karol Carroll (as she was billed) was insufficiently nimble for true prestidigitation...
...Ruddy Bligh. In last month's elimination trials off Newport, Scott surprised U.S. yachtsmen with his pluck and precision. Balding, ruddy-faced, he bossed Sovereign's eleven-man crew like a budding Captain Bligh, beat Kurrewa V, the favored British boat, six times in eight races. Experts found plenty to criticize in Sovereign's construction: her untapered, top-heavy mast, her primitive rigging, her poorly cut sails. But they had nothing but praise for Scott. "I've known Peter Scott for a long time," said Bob Bavier, who will pilot Constellation, the U.S. defender...