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...shop has since moved to a basement location beneath Ferranti-Dege. In the front room, a glass display case contains silicone spray, Lexol leather conditioner, stain protector, suede dye, wooden shoe stretchers Fiebing's edge ink, Cavalier leather balm, shoelaces, shoehorns, three dozen tones of Meltonian creme polish...
Shaking Felix's hand is like putting on a tight leather glove. His fingers are short, thick, powerful, with the nails trimmed close. Fingertips are black with polish, calloused, and scuffed like rough-cut pine. The skin is cracked splintered, not just on the tips but down the finger to the palm, He is strong, but not with the manicured muscles of the beauty parlor weight room. His barrer-shaped forearms have been built by forty years of intense, detailed work, banding thick leather to his bidding...
...farm under $127 million of debt, and owner Bertha Wright, who inherited Calumet in 1982, filed for bankruptcy protection in July. Last week all 850 rolling acres of Kentucky bluegrass, 15 red-and-white barns, a 14-room mansion and assorted trophies and memorabilia went on the auction block. Polish-born horseman and aviation magnate Henryk de Kwiatkowski, 64, got the 770-acre main parcel with a $17 million bid. De Kwiatkowski, who also paid $210,000 for the Calumet name, announced that he would keep the farm's staff and operate it as before. "When I saw this place...
...that the civil war is over, teams from Japan, France and Poland want to begin similar work on other monuments. The most ambitious project would be the restoration by Polish specialists of the Bayon, the last great temple built before the collapse of the Khmer civilization. Most of the temples at Angkor are Hindu, but the Bayon was built as a Buddhist shrine. While Angkor Wat soars, the Bayon suffocates. It is crowded with 54 sandstone towers, each with four carved visages of a complacently smiling future Buddha, or bodhisattva. The faces are probably likenesses of the temple's builder...
Although the Polish government has signed an agreement with the Cambodian government to restore the temple, Warsaw is broke. The Poles have asked UNESCO for funds and have been turned down. The organization would like to see such bilateral efforts postponed until the overall environment can be stabilized. Even though there is a general understanding of the need for that approach, donor nations want a temple to restore and claim as their own. "Everyone wants to produce a before-and-after photograph," complains Engelhardt...