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...Tinkerbelle, a craft so tiny that it looked like a bathtub toy. Years passed-it takes a certain sort of person to enter the Ridiculous-and last year Briton Tom McClean sailed from Newfoundland to England in an absurd craft called the Giltspur, more than 3 ft. shorter than Tinkerbelle...
...Japanese stress personal relations because they are interested in the long-term implementation of an agreement. Western businessmen, on the other hand, may tend to look more at the shorter term. "The American feeling is that it's the horse buyer's fault if he fails to ask whether a horse is blind," says George White of the Harvard Business School. "For the Japanese, however, a deal is more of a discussion of where mutual interests...
...design, packaging, food or painting. Red, for instance, pertains to magic and sorcery, vitality, fire and the conquest of evil spirits. Japanese color is grounded in nature: every indigo or cobalt dye runs, as it were, back to the sea. But the circuit between nature and abstraction is far shorter than in the West. Color has the peremptory quality of calligraphy: a gesture, an unmediated...
...imperial talk of crowning a Miss Universe is about. Making his way to the wings of the stage, he turns and sees Pageant Host Bob Barker, 59. (Truth or Consequences and The Price Is Right are not in syndication on his planet yet, but the visitor feels Bob looks shorter in person than on the TV monitor.) He also gets a new twist on "singing," when Guest Star John Schneider (The Dukes of Hazzard) belts out "It's not where you start. It's where you finish." Finally, Miss New Zealand, Lorraine Elizabeth Downes, 19, is proclaimed Miss...
Though no quarter was given in the training, some sensible accommodation was made to cope with the differences between the sexes. To adapt to shorter limbs (Ride is 5 ft. 5 in.), shuttle seats were built so that they could slide like those in a car. Optional grooming aids were added to the personal kits of the astronauts (though Ride pointedly has not said whether she will wear lipstick or powder for the inevitable orbital TV shows). Included as well are tampons, linked together lest one drift off when the box is opened. The shuttle's single privy...