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...business year was the impact of overseas business upon the U.S., and the increasing U.S. involvement abroad. To round out this part of the story, our Common Market Correspondent Jason McManus interviewed several dozen bankers, industrialists and economists in Europe, as well as that new breed of technician, the Eurocrats. For the past 6 months we have been presenting two business sections each week-U.S. and World Business. Since the theme of this story is how the two areas became interwoven in 1962, it is appropriate that in our year-end review we put the two sections back together...
...contributors including the editor, very well equipped to cope with like Salinger, who is as committed to ambiguity as Zen. He is, above and beyond all, a technician. His biennial production of stories suggests the care he devotes to his work; the remarkable style he has achieved suggests how completely he has become obsessed with selecting gesture, word, and scene...
...gray. Pipes are blue, nitrogen tanks a vivid yellow, heavily insulated cables are red, and black. Overhead ventilation ducts are fire red. The personnel of the C.E.A. are oblivious to the gaudy, nursery school quality of their surroundings. "It's better than just having everything gray," said a technician, "but I don't suppose it really matters much. You get used to the color, whatever...
...Paris, the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches agreed to send two observers, and named as one of them Dr. Lukas Vischer from the council's permanent secretariat in Geneva. An expert on Catholicism, Dr. Vischer is little known in ecumenical circles. He is an ecclesiastical technician, capable of accurate theological reporting, but he clearly does not have the prestige or stature to speak for the World Council in Rome...
Ronald Thomas, a medical technician at Detroit's Osteopathic Clinic, produced a snub-nosed .38-caliber revolver he had stolen from a doctor's coat. "I got a crazy idea," he said, pointing it kiddingly at the others. "Let's play Russian roulette." Then the gun went off, and David Lazarov went down with a bullet in his head...