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Schickele explains solemnly that he first stumbled on P.D.Q., whose existence was known only "from police records and tavern lOUs," while touring a Bavarian castle in 1953. To his amazement, he says, he found the care taker using a piece of manuscript as a strainer for his percolator. It turned out to be the Sanka cantata...
...have the capacity for one adventure inside us, but great adventure is facing responsibility day after day." That view is echoed by Amherst's Historian John William Ward, who sees something "pathetic and sentimental" in the American adventurer. "Today," he says, "the man who is the real risk taker is anonymous and nonheroic. He is the one trying to make institutions work. What we need is not to go West, but to return eastward, to create excitement and adventure in things that are no longer solitary. If a man can only find adventure by going to Alaska or running...
Despite its rapid growth (1964 sales: $40 million), Moulinex remains a strictly one-man operation. Jean Mantelet, dapper and youngish-looking at 64, is president, general manager and principal (99%) stockholder. No longer the reluctant risk taker, he now plans to increase his factories from four to seven within three years, double production, triple sales and raise exports from 30% to 50% of total sales. One special target is the biggest appliance market...
...Troika. General is run by three brothers, who have taken the company for its most rewarding rides on unfamiliar roads. President Michael Gerald ("Jerry") O'Neil, 43, a cool risk taker, directs the tire and other manufacturing operations in Akron, now devotes special attention to the company's missile-making arm, Aerojet-General, which has been nicked by the aerospace cutbacks. In Manhattan, Chairman Thomas O'Neil, 49, a onetime Holy Cross College football star, oversees the company's entertainment subsidiary, RKO General, and specializes in acquisitions. And John O'Neil, 47, an extraverted intellectual...
...Goldfinger technique" involves the insertion of a tiny transistorized receiver in the ear. At the smoking break, one smuggles the questions to a fleetfooted accomplice, waiting in the wings. He researches the answers and dictates them via transmitter to the listening exam-taker...