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...which he was best known, his astounding physical strength. In the 1930s, as his unofficial host in Panama, I took him to dinner on the carrier Saratoga. He was asked if he could tear any book in half, and he said yes. The officers produced first a Sears, Roebuck catalogue, which he caught in midair; it barely touched his hands and went sailing back, torn crosswise from the back into two pieces. They handed him a 1,700-page dictionary, and he grasped it by the back and slowly tore it into two pieces, the tear going through every page...
...Calder. But the selection came only after a number of sculptors-including David Smith, Richard Lippold and Jean Arp -were considered. Scholars at M.I.T. tested the Calder design in a wind tunnel, then they buried beneath it a time capsule that included a Betty Crocker cookbook, a Sears, Roebuck catalogue, 1964 coins, M.I.T. memorabilia, and a copy of TIME...
...Koratron Co. Inc. (TIME, Dec. 17), which last year produced 170 million pairs of treated trousers, this year aims at 210 million. At J.C. Penney's 1,700 stores, 95% of the trousers and more than 50% of shirts, dresses and skirts are durable press. Sears, Roebuck & Co. reports that the new process accounts for more than 80% of men's slacks sales. Koret of California says that it outsells traditional women's clothes...
...roof above his modern office in Caracas, Venezuela, booted militiamen with submachine guns patrol 24 hours a day. They are watching for Communist terrorists who, in a perverse kind of compliment, have focused on Eaton's company as a prime example of Yanqui capitalism. It is Sears, Roebuck of Venezuela, and all of its 13 stores have been the targets of bombs or burning. Though nothing has happened lately, Eaton's workers each night before closing have to examine every drawer, dress pocket and cranny in the store for possible homemade incendiaries. Nevertheless, Sears is prospering in Venezuela...
...myopia. Actually, the chief of Hitler's high command was neither a Prussian nor a very convincing "war criminal." Keitel was a frustrated farmer who, on his rare wartime leaves, loved nothing more than to muck about his Brunswick estate of Helmscherode, buying new farm implements or hunting roebuck and wild boar. Almost coincidentally, he signed his name to Hitler's orders decreeing the deaths of millions. As another Nazi general wrote of Keitel later, "He was certainly not wicked au fond, as one occasionally reads...