In earier days those who had overseas business which they believed should be discussed personally , took shipbang set out across the briny deep. Once aboard they transacted their affairs, engaging in commercial and social mattersor conducting government business. Today ships and passengers continue to sail the seven seas, and airplanes soar overhead. Butabove them all, words speed through the sky - telephone conversations quickly bring together in the most personal fashion people who are separated by thousands of miles