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...roadways. Blowing at 115 m.p.h., Cleo knocked down so many power lines that more than 60,000 telephones in Dade County were without service. At least two dozen fires broke out in Miami, and winds were so high that firemen could not cope with them for hours. At Opa-Locka Airport, a DC-3 was lifted 50 ft. off the ground, flopping helplessly at the end of its ropes. A runaway freight car was blown eight miles from Hollywood to Fort Lauderdale, finally crashing into a railway station that had been nudged onto the tracks by the gale...
Danger for Some. Most of the Western visitors wasted little time talking politics with their relatives. With more than two years of separation behind them, they dwelt on family matters, cooed over Tante Emma's new baby, or drank a belated brandy to Opa's memory. Only after the initial thrill of renewal ties was there time for furtive whispers about the future. Could the Communists really close the Wall again Jan. 5-the deadline-now that both East and West Berliners had tasted a mo ment of freedom? It was bound to erode Communism's barrier...
...yearned for politics. He bounced around the Washington agencies, and in his spare time constructed an elaborate system for price regulation. In 1941, when Galbraith's system was published, he was hired by Leon Henderson as an official in the newborn Office of Price Administration, later became OPA deputy administrator. Galbraith looked on helplessly for two years as his six-man staff swelled to 16.000 and every one of his mechanisms for price control proved unworkable. From a stint at FORTUNE, which he credits with teaching him to write, he returned to Harvard. (In 1937 he had married Kitty...
...shiny. Admen have learned to put up with image-smashing by professors, but what really hurts is when one of their own hacks away at the pedestal. Last week, on a Washington television program, ex-Adman (cofounder of the high-powered agency, Benton & Bowles, Inc.), ex-Bureaucrat (OPA price administrator), ex-Governor (of Connecticut), ex-Ambassador (to India), ex-Congressman and now Under Secretary of State Chester Bowles committed the Madison Avenue equivalent of treason: he dismissed his advertising career as a youthful mistake...
...authority on intelligence testing who decried the theory of the immutable intelligence quotient, held instead that proper schooling could raise a child's IQ by 20 points; of a heart attack; in New York City. An outspoken theorist who never lost sight of practicalities, Lorge rewrote wartime OPA regulations into understandable English as part of a crusade for greater readability in public documents, insisted that trashy books do not cause juvenile delinquency and argued that teachers ought to learn the lingo of their students...