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From Karachi to Calcutta, he flew through blinding rain and cloud. Over the Hump, which he had flown 102 times during World War II for the Chinese National Aviation Corp., the plane bounced and tossed. Blue St. Elmo's fire glowed eerily from propellers and wing tips. His automatic pilot went out. For the rest of the way, he had to fly by manual control...
...brain like a weight. Flying southeastward over the Canadian Rockies, he fell asleep. When he awoke an hour and 40 minutes later, he was flying almost due north. All around him, white-fanged peaks glinted in the moonlight. "I looked up and I was headed for a huge cloud. No, I thought, that's not a cloud." It was the top of Mount Logan, 19,850 feet high. "I just pulled back on the wheel and spiraled right up ... before I straightened out for home...
Gromyko was among the first to leave, walking with his heavy, stiff shoulders carried high, head prodding forward, his face a stolid mask. Soviet car No. 1 drove up. The chauffeur smiled with a flash of stainless steel teeth, and Gromyko disappeared in a faint cloud of gasoline and mystery...
...departments for a day. He also had a deft touch with employees. He bought each one a cake on his birthday, gave brief parties in the store and held ten-minute get-togethers each morning to plan selling strategy. Bob's technique paid off: his St. Cloud store sells 3½ times the national average per square foot for stores in its class. Last year his small-town chain grossed $8,000,000. Says he: "All you have to do is watch your inventories...
Last week, as Bob came home from Chicago to St. Cloud to a 50-piece band, a Chamber of Commerce luncheon and a huge horseshoe of roses, he said enthusiastically: "Butler Bros, can become the General Motors of merchandise; the Du Ponts did it with automobiles. All the small-town merchant will have to do is stay home and take care of his store. Butler Brothers will do the rest...