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...Malaya, Britain's rubber-rich colony, last week the phrase seemed for once appropriate. Four years ago the British promised Malaya self-determination "in due course," but did not fix a date. Last week the British named a date, and soon: August...
...plane at Cairo, Hammarskjold sewed up Egyptian consent to his plan for healing Egypt's worst Israeli border sore spot, the demilitarized desert crossroads at El Auja, where blood flowed freely last November. Each side agreed to pull back its forces and let the U.N. go ahead and fix the demarcation lines...
...recent years, business analysts have come out of the ivory tower and into the marketplace. Dozens of organizations, e.g., the Council for Economic Development, the Twentieth Century Fund, keep the public informed on business trends. In business and in government today, few decisions are made without an' economic "fix" from an expert...
...Thomas Nast caricature of the bediamonded, potbellied lobbyist has faded beyond recognition. Says American Hotel Association Lobbyist Donald Montgomery: "Some businessmen are still stupid enough to want a crook for a lobbyist, a guy who can make the quick fix. But those characters are out of date." In to replace him has come a well-trained, accommodating technical expert whose facts-tailored, of course, to fit his own cause-are presented not in a backroom, but at a formal hearing. One of the lobbyist's biggest jobs is to gauge political winds and determine what he can get. Said...
...ocean. Anybody who sees this picture, made by Allen H. Miner and Gerald Schnitzer on a West Coast tuna clipper, will soon see why. He will also see a handsome piece of movie journalism, and so many fish that when he describes the catch his wife will hurry to fix him a cup of black coffee...