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...Defeat, Eagles and Stars, and red, white and blue flag patterns. Others incorporated Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs or laurel leaves, in recognition of Napoleon's neoclassic symbol of glory. Superstitious quilt makers often spoiled the symmetry deliberately in order not to imitate God's perfection and thus tempt divine wrath...
...lured onto an airplane. That leaves half of the population for the airline industry to work on in its effort to win more customers. Last week in Washington the industry's marketing executives met to ponder why so many stay earthbound and to figure out new ways to tempt them into the air. The task is vital to the lines: for every additional 1% of the population that they succeed in attracting to flight, they gain $100 million in revenues. This year they are flying more people than ever before-and making more money than ever doing...
Their optimism washed over into the Apollo moonshot program. Where officials were recently talking about 1970 as the likely year for the first U.S. lunar landing attempt, last week they were talking about 1969, and Apollo Manager Joseph Shea said the first at tempt might even come in mid-1968. "That's the true implication of Gemini 4 for Apollo," said Shea. Original plans called for a landing on the 15th Apollo shot, he explained, but "now we may be able to make an attempt on the fourth, fifth or sixth launch...
Last week Daniell had good news: the Bank of England cut its interest rate from a forbidding 7% , which had pre vailed since last November's pound cri sis, to 6% . While the lower rate will tempt some international speculators to shift their money out of British banks, the government hopes that it will also stimulate the economy sufficiently to at tract other deposits. The Bank of Eng land's directors felt confident enough to take that risk because British reserves are strengthening; last week the Treas ury announced that the sterling area's gold and foreign...
...peasant, part common scold. In his lighter moments, he was engagingly frank. With half a glass of beer inside him, he was asked at an after-dinner party whether the Russians had ever solved their succession problem. Khrushchev's response was a jocular account of the 1957 at tempt by Bulganin, Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovich to depose him. "Bulganin," said Khrushchev, "was and is a very good bookkeeper. He was even being a bookkeeper during the anti-party revolt. He thought that four was bigger than seven. He knows better now." Malenkov was "a weak man who could...