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Trust v. Trust. But the operations of the Unilever empire are not quite so simple. In fact, they are so complex, and sometimes so purposely camouflaged, that even the top men of Unilever don't always keep them straight...
...been difficult here as elsewhere to stay at the high tide of optimism. The veteran, backed by G.I. Benefits, has not found his personal problems of readjustment difficult. But veteran and non-veteran alike find hard the complex of college, national, and international problems which now vie for their attention. The temptation is great to become immersed in the close-at-hand affairs of the University, or to concentrate overly much on tasks of limited scope such as shipping food boxes to foreign students. Even greater is the temptation to follow the example of Noah who returned to the safety...
Neither is subtle, complex or daring. Whitney is a well-read man who likes to lace his speeches with literary allusions. Johnston (nobody calls him Al) is a plain, blunt man who almost never makes a speech, puts on a front of gruff irascibility...
...entering. He also had a hot time Christmas of that year when someone forgot to open the chimney for the burning of the Yule log at the Christmas dinner ceremonies. Through all of this, the Perkins wit made life more bearable, for the complicated problems of man in a complex House were always met by a notice in the Perkins style explaining perhaps why a striped silk shirt did not pass for a formal jacket at High Table...
Last week, as C.C.P.A.C. prepared to elect a new slate of permanent officers, the fur flew faster than ever. Charged Industrialist Miles Pennypacker of the executive council: "Pope has a Napoleonic complex." Charged ruffled Dr. Pope, from the sidelines: "The organization has fallen into the hands of a group in whom we have no confidence." Explained Mrs. Brubaker: "Because you don't like certain people you shouldn't call them Communists. . . . Dr. Pope . . . has such awful phobias about Reds and things like that...