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...questionable to what extent Government contractors can be forced to switch suppliers. Kennedy succeeded in beating back U.S. Steel's price hikes by persuading Inland Steel Co. to hold the line, but L.B.J.'s lame-duck status leaves him with far less clout than his predecessor enjoyed...
...Shot in the Dark and The Pink Panther, Gallic gumshoe Jacques Clouseau was played by Peter Sellers with his overfamiliar banana-peel approach to comedy. In Inspector Clouseau, Arkin follows meticulously in his predecessor's flatfootsteps, but the result is only a parody of a parody...
Careful Planning. Iraq was ripe for revolt. Under the regime of General Aref, who took over in 1966 after his predecessor and brother Abdul Salem Aref died in a mysterious helicopter crash, the country suffered from so much corruption that the Premier, Lieut. General Taher Yahya, was widely known as "the Thief of Baghdad." A poor administrator and weak boss, Aref bore the additional stigma of last year's defeat in the Six-Day War with Israel. He offended many citizens by decreeing further delays in Iraq's decade-long "transition" from military rule to parliamentary democracy, seemed...
...late William Parker, Reddin's predecessor, was the epitome of the police professional, a crusty authoritarian who had little truck with sociological theories. Taking over a scandal-tainted force in 1950, Parker made it as honest as any in the nation, boosting standards, competence and morale, and giving the L.A. police a paramilitary esprit. He did not, however, understand the new problems caused by the postwar influx of Mexican-Americans and Negroes. For several years before his death in 1966, the once progressive department stagnated as the ailing chief's ideas congealed into dogma and he labored to surround...
...Pompidou's dismissal, one of the most extraordinary chronicles of recent political history, is herewith detailed by TIME'S Paris bureau chief, Curt Prendergast. De Gaulle had actually been thinking about replacing Pompidou for a couple of years. He had, after all, kept Pompidou's predecessor, Michel Debré, for only three years, then dumped him once Debré had presided over the unpleasant business of granting Algeria independence-despite Debré's own opposition to the idea. The roots of the present events were struck in the May revolts, when Pompidou and De Gaulle...