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Trujillo is essentially a brutally efficient businessman. Name of the business: the Dominican Republic. His basic maneuver is to squeeze other investors, including those from the U.S., out of profitable businesses. He sends his representatives to make what is often a scrupulously fair offer; the victims accept rather than face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLfC: Still in Business | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

Even some Nuri supporters have lately complained that the time had come to relax the strict controls that Nuri imposed at the beginning of the Suez crisis. Shrewdly, Nuri had combined his vacation plans with an old maneuver-stepping down to produce an illusion of "change" when politicians began to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: Out of the Heat | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

Mollet's maneuver was timed to coincide with the National Assembly debate on the government's demand for 150 billion francs ($428 million) in new taxes. Last week, as the Assembly Finance Committee tore up Finance Minister Paul Ra-madier's tax plan (indirect levies which would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: At the Stake | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

Michiko shot to her present eminence by a maneuver familiar to Hollywood: posing in the seminude. The daughter of an Osaka metal-shop owner, she arrived in Tokyo when she was 15 seeking a singing career, but was bluntly told by the first recording company she went to that she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Untamed! | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

As a training maneuver. Carib-Ex's theoretical goal was to drive an aggressor force out of the Canal Zone. But the show's main purpose was to build good will by impressing the Latin generals with the quick punch that the U.S. could bring to their .aid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANAL ZONE: Military Show | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

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