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Morning Workouts. Pereira's main office, starred by 60 architects and experts, is on Los Angeles' busy Wilshire Boulevard?a de luxe garret with a skylight in the peaked ceiling, black leather chairs, white marble coffee table, and a king-sized desk awash with reports, sketches and papers. He spends most of his time there in an interminable round of conferences and phone calls, always with a cup of steaming black coffee at his elbow. The hectic pace leaves him little time for riding or for sailing, which he used to love. These days his only exercise...
...first Janet is blind to Martha's designs. She is preoccupied with what a sudden half-million dollars will buy for refugees from a Manhattan walk-up-a rambling house in suburbia, a grove of fruitwood furniture, a set of leather elbow patches for Van's new tweeds. She tries gamely to keep up with hubby's new country squire pretensions. When Van mentions at a cocktail party that he is thinking of buying a 1929 Lagonda (an automobile), Janet chirps: "He's just crazy about good wines." Under the tutelage of seasoned Divorcee Shelley Winters...
...Moscow, 25 plant executives of the five-factory Leather Combine were awaiting trial, charged with diverting tons of their inventories. Most sensational was the confession of N. Medintziv, supervisor of Sporting Equipment Factory No. 2, that he had turned his back, for thousands of rubles a month in payoffs, while the chief of his cutting-floor section routed consignments of leather to distant Georgia (via the state railway). There it was secretly fashioned into fancy high-heeled shoes, which were smuggled back to Moscow -and snapped up by the Soviet capital's increasingly style-conscious women...
Honors have piled up for Counsilman. Indiana recently awarded him its 1963 Leather Medal for bringing "the most distinction to the university." (Among the previous winners: Sexpert Alfred Kinsey, Nobel Prizewinning Geneticist Hermann Muller.) The A.A.U. has just named him head coach of the U.S.'s 1964 Olympic swimming team. And five rival Big Ten swimming coaches, for whom Counsilman's success has meant nothing but hurt, pain, agony, have paid him an ultimate tribute: they refuse to compete against Indiana in a two-team meet...
Across the silent ages, these small treasures are the voices of a people both busy and devout: ivory angels carved on a comb, a double lamp in a twin-tailed bronze dove, a polka-dotted leather sandal, a rabbit nibbling round fruit on a woven wool square. Textiles-wall hangings for tombs, shirts and coats for the dead-form perhaps the highest level of Coptic art, and the hot, dry desert climate has preserved some of the best examples: representations of everyday occurrences, proud portrayals of heroic scenes, and obedient evocations of saints and holy acts...