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...challenging situation, such as having to do tests in a room kept as noisy as a boiler factory, extra sleep reduced efficiency for some navymen. High strung subjects, after loss of sleep, turned in better-than-usual performances. A full night's sleep seemed to restore their tensions...
...profitable gold fields would peter out. Hoping to diversify the company (then called Yuba Consolidated Gold Fields), the directors brought in as chairman and president a hustling and autocratic executive named John L. McGara. McGara, 51, who had made his name by merging a complex of plate steel and boiler equipment suppliers into Buffalo's Adsco Industries, abolished Yuba's monthly board meeting to give himself freer rein. He ruthlessly dismissed old Yuba hands who questioned his policies. The directors didn't mind, because McGara promised that with his kind of leadership Yuba would...
...indirect contacts with the shadowy underworld of agents and counteragents, it appeared that the Africans are taking the communists for a ride. There is a small "party" which calls itself the African National Congress, led by Zuberi Mtemvu, a TANU renegade who recently returned from Peiping with fifteen boiler suits and enough money to buy himself a Mercedes- Benz. The Congress polled 60 votes the first time they ran a candidate, and 67 the second time. (The joke runs that Mtemvu's family had increased by seven during the interim.) I was told of men who had approached communist agents...
...Many of the critical hours and major problems of the 100 days are glossed over or overlooked. Laos is dismissed with four pictures. The Cuban invasion (which occurred on the 87th day of the new Administration) is reduced to a frantic, one-page epilogue. The book is stuffed with boiler-plate material-photo essays on starving Congolese and primitive Ecuadorians that are technically brilliant but utterly irrelevant. And there are glaringly misleading statements, such as Barbara Ward's "Asia, apart from pockets of territory such as Goa, is free...
...true, might seem more likely to appeal to a mass audience than a grisly book like Malcolm. But The Nephew has not had much critical or popular success since its release last winter. It is too deliberately paced and too introspective to qualify as a mere pot boiler. Purdy has obviously not sold himself...