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...Education and Welfare. Later, at a private audience in the Vatican, Johnson presented a model Telstar satellite to Pope John XXIII. Johnson and the Pope, both voluble men, talked for 40 minutes, double the scheduled length of the audience. Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall, in the Soviet Union to inspect hydroelectric facilities, hit it off famously with the Russian officials. Declared one: "We have known you literally only a few hours, but you have become dear to us." Udall even managed to persuade some Russians to play touch football in the shadow of one mighty Soviet dam, then threw...
...minutes, without waiting for the doctor to confirm or deny the prediction, the poor little canary flutters in terror through the streets of Paris, pursued by the big black cat of Death. She flutters past a market, where carcasses of cattle hang from brutal hooks and the butchers inspect her expertly, as though she were a carcass too. She flutters to her manager (Dominique Davray), a hard-faced businesswoman who comforts her meticulously but unemotionally, as though smoothing a 500-franc note. She flies back to her gilded cage in time to preen and twitter for the man who keeps...
...young man to preside over its drive for diversification. Scheduled to take over as chief executive of Mannesmann Oct. 1, genial Herr Doktor Overbeck is currently studying the company's operations under the tutelage of retiring Chairman Hermann Winkhaus, 65, this week will fly off to Canada to inspect Mannesmann's steel plants there...
Workdays, Ferkauf gets up before 7 a.m. without an alarm clock, prepares his own breakfast, then washes the dishes, using rubber gloves. No matter how far he must travel to inspect one of his stores, whether to Hartford or Harrisburg, he is always home before the children bed down. Only six nights during the past 14 years has Ferkauf spent away from home-and four of them were on a recent business jaunt to Italy...
...travel for 3,000 miles without crossing a border or showing your passport. If you journeyed this far in Europe, you would pass through ten different countries with different laws and different languages. And open your luggage for ten different customs inspectors." As the ads point out, tourists may inspect such monuments to the American way as dude ranches, Mississippi riverboats, Indians, New England clambakes, country square dances...