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...Tight-Rope Business. A fierce individualist, Rentschler fights shy of Government-financed expansion, is currently spending $40 million on expansion from United's own funds. "There's a lot of difference if you're using your own money or playing with someone else's," he says. "The one thing that would destroy our country's leadership in the air would be for Government to take a dominant part. I've seen that happen in other countries. France dominated the air in the First World War . . . then the government stepped...
...wanting to reimpose a discredited past upon Asia. "The issues are global," he said, "and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector oblivious to those of another is to court disaster for the whole. While Asia is com- monly referred to as the gateway to Eu rope, it is no less true that Europe is the gateway to Asia . . . There are those who claim our strength is inadequate to protect on both fronts ... I can think of no greater expression of defeatism...
Slack your rope, Hangsaman...
...rope around the neck of 17-year old Natalie Waite was homemade. Her father had made up his mind that his imaginative child would be a writer; Natalie tried to please him, even if it meant dressing up in a personality that wasn't hers. But the masquerade proves too much for Natalie. Hangsaman is Shirley Jackson's description, simple and terrifying, of a young girl sinking into schizophrenia...
...Martandam. The villagers soon nicknamed him "Double-Your-Money" Hatch. They learned to breed the best poultry in India, instead of the semi-wild jungle fowl that laid an egg every two weeks. They learned to build roads, how to control malaria and cholera, weave baskets, rugs and rope. Instead of their sticky, grimy jaggery (unrefined sugar candy), Hatch taught them to make clean palmyra sugar to be sold at double the price of jaggery. He introduced scientific beekeeping, revived the art of kuftgari (working designs on iron and silver). At the same time, he taught the villagers to read...