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...students will learn how to use dozens of complex espionage devices. They will be taught how to tap a telephone from a distance by beaming a ray from an infrared listening device into the receiver, and how to coat documents with a colorless dye that will penetrate even through leather gloves to blacken the fingers of anyone touching the document. "Naturally," purrs Old Shanghai Hand Furuya, "we have a counter-formula which will nullify the dye's effect, and only our students will know about...
...catalogue, which is mailed twice yearly to 400,000 customers, is Bean's most potent sales weapon. Its best known item is the "Maine Hunting Boot'' ($11.35 to $23.85), which has a rubber bottom stitched to a leather top. "We know how important those boots are to a man," says L. L. Bean. "He might like them better than his wife." Hunters last year bought 16,000 pairs...
Grandma's Attic. It was the Maine hunting boot that put Leon Leonwood Bean in business. The son of a Yankee horse trader, he drifted from job to job until 1911 when the boot idea struck him as he slogged wet-footed in leather boots through the Maine woods. Helped by a $400 loan from his brother Otho, he set up shop. The Freeport factory expanded steadily but haphazardly, and today it looks like a cross between Grandma's attic and a broken roller coaster. Dumbwaiters hesitantly carry materials from floor to floor through a mazelike production line...
Straight from the Shoulder. The cheering audience called the three soloists, Conductor Colin Davis and Composer Britten back for repeated bows. Relaxing backstage with a leather-bound flask of cognac in hand, Composer Britten explained that he had not conducted the score himself because he was suffering from the mysterious psychogenic shoulder disorder that "happens to me only after I've finished a big work." And the Mass, he might have added, is one of the biggest works of his career. "It has been boiling up inside me for years," said Britten. "I had to find a language simple...
...change my mind." In the meantime, his job, he says, is "electing Republicans in Ohio." He has done so well at it that there are few major political offices in Ohio still held by Democrats, but the 1962 returns were barely counted before Bliss was back in his red leather chair making plans to elect even more Republicans...