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...Greeks." The master of this seagoing empire is a hawk-nosed, trim (5 ft. 7½ in., 155 Ibs.) man with glossy, grey-flecked black hair and glittering brown eyes that betray an acquisitive, competitive, imaginative mind. The secret of his success is hard work, nerve, intelligence and, say his friends, over and over again, "the ability to see into the future...
Sosthenes Behn, 74, stepped down as chairman and chief executive of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., but will continue as a member of the board and the executive committee. Chief executive will be I.T. & T.'s new president, Edmond H. Leavey (TIME, May 7). Hawk-faced Sosthenes Behn founded I.T. & T. in 1920, when he and brother Hernand bought a struggling Puerto Rican telephone company, built it into a $687 million communications empire that operates radiotelegraph circuits from Moscow to New Zealand, owns 33 manufacturing and research affiliates throughout the world. Behn came under fire from stock holders who charged...
...delegates had but one choice for Tunisia's first Premier as an independent nation. It was Habib Bourguiba, the hawk-nosed, voluble lawyer who led his country to sovereignty through 26 years of agitation, exile and imprisonment...
From the opening tap-off, Barnett followed Tebo like a hawk. Not until the thirteen-minute mark did Tebo score his first basket of the game, and that on a 30-foot set shot...
Died. Charles Edward Taylor, 87, designer and builder of the four-cylinder, 12-h.p. aircraft engine used by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk; of asthma; in San Fernando, Calif...