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Behind the first two men, the Crimson credentials read like a congregation of All-American players. Lou Williams was interscholastic champion while in prop school, Paul Sullivan is captain of the tennis team, Doug Walter advanced to the quarterfinals of the 1962 national championships, and Roger Wiegand, who is squash captain this year, has been a stand-out for two years...
...money seldom changes hands. The film shows the product; the product maker advertises the film on billboards and packages. But smalltime money deals still go on, of course, with advertisers making direct contributions to stagehands, prop-men and even actors to slip their products before the cameras. Most stars still refuse to have any part of it. "I tried to get Cary Grant in on a tie-in," says one Hollywood flack, "but he just looked at me and said, 'Who needs...
...British aircraft. In 1955, it ordered a fleet of sleek, new Comet4 long-range pure jets and, after delivery in 1958, saw them made obsolete within a year by more economical, longer-range U.S. Boeing 707s. Now BOAC has 16 Boeing 707s; but it is stuck with 60 prop planes, propjets and Comets, whose value, according to the last BOAC annual report, is "?30 million less than book value...
Nimble-Footed. Sukarno smoothly plays the 250,000-man army off against the other major prop of his regime, Indonesia's 2,000,000-member Communist Party, third largest in the world after those of Russia and Red China. The army has seven ministries in his Cabinet to the Communists' two, enjoys the accrued privileges and profits of almost unlimited power. Leader of Indonesia's armed forces is Defense Minister General Abdul Haris Nasution, 43, whose popularity among the military enables him to hold the highly independent army in check-and to change sides nimbly. Nasution...
...pejorative addition to the national vocabulary, "the organization man" is hardly more than a human ballbearing who aspires to become a big wheel. But as prop for U.S. fiction writers, he has become distressingly ubiquitous-mostly in the role of a puppet for potboilermakers, only rarely as the subtly realized, peculiarly American character he should...