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...manager of the Honeywell plant, as he picks up a telephone. "When I need parts I call, and the next day they're here. Try that in the Far East." The Mexican connection enables managers from the headquarters of U.S. firms to visit their factories quickly and frequently. "Twentysix miles is a lot easier than 8,000," said Allen Roshon, president of San Diego's Computer Accessories, which operates a plant in nearby Tijuana...
...picture of Joseph Stalin as a human being was sharpened up a little last week. The twelfth volume of Stalin's collected works, issued in Moscow, contained an unpublished letter-a warm, personal note-that Stalin wrote in 1930 to his friend, Author Maxim Gorky (TwentySix Men and a Girl), then ill with tuberculosis in Italy...
...Teeth: Twentysix...
...Twentysix, redheaded, pretty, weighing 90 lbs., she obviously could not ship before the mast. Besides, she wanted to sail as captain. She plucked $1,100 from the bank and headed for Baltimore. There the schooner Fannie Insley, dirty, spectral, gaunt, was tied to a city wharf. The Fannie Insley took her eye. She planked down $800 for her ("her bottom was sound"), spent the rest of her fortune fitting her out, by virtue of her ownership became Captain Grant, hired a couple of hands, cast off into the business of hauling freight up & down Chesapeake...
...Twentysix out of 31 university presidents in this country say that student drinking is not general. . . . With due respect for the judgment of those presidents, we cannot help feeling that their opinion is of slight value unless checked by facts. And so far as Yale is concerned, the News proposes to have a look at the facts...