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...Ambassador to Japan, the President last week chose a career diplomat with a historic name: Douglas Mac-Arthur II. The name (for his uncle) may impress the Japanese, but it had nothing to do with his appointment. Suave, capable Douglas MacArthur, 47, was picked for his first ambassadorship strictly on performance...
Shark No. 1 is Mr. MacHeath, legendary killer and gang leader, once popularly known as "The Knife." At novel's start, Mac still has his gang, though none but his intimate henchmen know it, and while he carries a swordstick cane, he is prudent enough never to use it. Mac is a progressive crook who has come to see not the error of his ways but his means: "What is a picklock compared to a debenture share? What is the burgling of a bank compared to the founding of a bank? What is the murder of a man compared...
Crocodile Tears. In his drive toward legalized larceny, Mac founds a chain of B. (for Bargain) Shops that sell cut-rate goods to the poor. To supply them, he turns his gang into a kind of quartermaster looting corps which burgles other shops by night. In plots and counterplots of Chaplinesque strategy and Napoleonic execution, Mac reduces his competitors to satraps in his own trade empire and is elected a bank director into the bargain...
...Mac Corp.'s "Flying Platform" ($13.95), a tiny, gas-engine replica of the Navy's one-man Hiller Platform (TIME, April 18, 1955), takes off vertically and hovers...
...past three years, Bundy has been an effective complement to President Pusey in advising and carrying out the latter's educational programs. "Where Mr. Pusey strikes you with his directness and his strong-minded stability," one Faculty member recently remarked, "Mac Bundy positively scintillates. He goes off like a fireworks factory, bing, bing, and thinks so fast that he often outruns his troops...