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...East-West trade winds are stirring with uncommon force. Both a U.S. presidential commission and the prestigious Committee for Economic Development have urged the U.S. to expand its commerce with Eastern Europe, and President Johnson repeated his earlier promise to ease restrictions on sales to Russia and its satellites. Going farther, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce at its annual meeting urged the U.S. to "open channels of communications with the people of Communist China." Last week the trade drive picked up speed in three European capitals. The U.S. opened its first trade show in Budapest amid the whir of computers...
...potter of uncommon conscience, Wedgwood supported both the French and American Revolutions, though he well knew that they would hurt his business. An ardent antislaver, Wedgwood sent Ben Franklin his historic medallion showing a chained Negro pleading, "Am I not a man and a brother?" And he became Evolutionist Charles Darwin's grandfather. At Josiah Wedgwood's burial place in the Stoke-on-Trent church, his epitaph reads: he "converted a rude and inconsiderable manufactory into an elegant art and an important part of national commerce." More than that, he annealed common clay with an uncommon love...
...growing cooperation. Each central bank now maintains a large foreign department to keep in touch with other banks. Last December the Paris Club set up a uniform system of confidential statistics about each country and made its findings available to all participating central banks. Today it is not uncommon for one government to give another government a few hours' notice of a change in the bank discount rate, a practice unheard of only a few years ago. At their international meetings, monetary men dispense with the diplomatic trimmings, close the doors to the public and speak with such remarkable...
...enticed to leave home for fear of losing touch with what he calls the "ordinary way of life." What the ordinary way of life means for Schulz is a 28-acre estate in Sebastopol, north of San Francisco, where he and Joyce and their five children live in uncommon luxury. Artificial waterfall, tennis court, riding ring, park, baseball diamond, barbecue pit, pool, all testify to Sparky's determination to give his children everything he lacked as a boy. Keeping the family company are five cats, four horses, three dogs, two turtles and a mouse. In true Peanuts fashion...
...aides scramble to retrieve it, Kennedy tells Shepard with mock solemnity that "this medal has gone from the ground up." That quip, of course, loses something in writing. And yet, it is more revealing than most of the narration, which never advances beyond the observation that Kennedy was "an uncommon man" who "built his program in an uncommon manner...