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...took place in a stalled taxi in the middle of the Place de la Concorde-this was Lewis' brilliant idea-the only place in the world safe from being overheard. The treaty was mysteriously dropped through the letter slot at the Tribune, wrapped in a piece of Chinese silk (some say a kimono). It would have been treasonable to publish the treaty, but Hunt got Senator Borah to start reading it for the Congressional Record, and a minute later the presses started rolling...
...under his hot-eyed glance. To his chagrin, the Los Angeles Philharmonic has even outfitted its ushers in Indian-style caps and silk coats like sherwanis. He is also somewhat embarrassed by the oversized portrait of himself, painted by Marion Pike, that hangs in the lobby of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion near the bar; but, typically, Mehta says, "Well, I'll say one thing: the bar makes a lot of money since that portrait...
Founded in 1891 by two ambitious young engineers, Englishman Charles E. L. Brown and Bamberg-born Walter Boveri, the firm got going with a felicitous marriage. Boveri's father-in-law, a wealthy Zurich silk merchant, provided the partners with an initial $170,000 stake. But technology was B.B.C.'s real dowry. The firm built a pioneering standard-gauge electric locomotive in 1899, rolled a long way with the expansion of European railroads, and soon began turning out early designs in circuit breakers, turbines and other heavy gear. And while its labs now work on cryogenics, lasers...
...last year, partly by exporting such military items as jungle boots, uniforms and galvanized steel for troops fighting in Viet Nam. One result is spreading prosperity-including even traffic jams -in Korean cities. Men are turning to woolen suits and many women are discarding their traditional chima and chogori (silk blouse and long skirt) for once scarce Western dresses. The silk goes into exports...
...keep out of sight and all young men with incurable Oxford accents to put on their hats and walk about pretending to be customers." But the practice survived, and the chain's present chairman, scholarly Sir Bernard Miller, 63, started in the Oxford Street store's silk department after reading modern history at Oxford University...