Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Somewhere in West Germany last week, two of the free world's top intelligence chiefs met in secret conference. One was pipe-smoking Allen Dulles, head of the U.S.'s Central Intelligence Agency. The other: shadowy Reinhard Gehlen, 58, head of West Germany's Federal Intelligence Service and a man who has been giving the Communists fits for nearly 20 years...
Stuffed Heads. Because of his distrust of other people, Diem rules largely through his family. One brother controls central Viet Nam; another is Ambassador to London; a third is the Roman Catholic Bishop of Vinhlong. Diem's closest adviser is a fourth brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, whose pretty wife is a member of the National Assembly and the country's leading feminist. Nhu, intellectual, articulate, smooth, has all the qualities Diem lacks. Though he holds no government position, Nhu works in a soundproof palace office, surrounded by books and stuffed animal heads. Diem takes Brother...
...there are two sorts of star "populations." Population I contains brilliant giant stars that are found chiefly in the outer spiral arms of a galaxy. Population II, of which the sun is a member, contains the less spectacular stars that make up most of any given galaxy's central disk. Baade concluded that the stars of Population I were recently formed out of cosmic dust and gas, and that they are rapidly burning themselves out. The stars of Population II are much older, dating back to the formation of the galaxy. Most of them will shine almost unchanged...
...Baltimore & Ohio Railroad were as popular last week as a fare cut to commuters. Three weeks ago the money-making Chesapeake & Ohio Railway offered to buy 80% of the B. & O.'s stock, and won the blessing of B. & O.'s management. Last week the New York Central Railroad, afraid of such a merger, which would create the second largest railroad in the U.S. and make competitive life hard for the Central, also made a move to woo B. & O. stockholders...
...face of it, the Central's seemed the better offer: an exchange of 1½ shares of Central stock plus $9 in cash for each share of B. & O. common stock. Total value: $42.65. some $7 more than...