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...with categorical denials. Admiral John T. Hayward, head of Navy research and development, says that the AEC's labs are doing all they can, and doing it well. Senators on the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy agree. All authorities insist that while other novel nuclear weapons may be ripe for testing, the fabled N-bomb is not. Some think it will not be ready for nearly five years...
...Papal decretals are the devil's excretals," cries John Osborne's monk in a burst of rhyme. Throughout the evening, it seems, scarcely two minutes are permitted to go by in which Luther does not resort to some self-dramatizing scatological simile: "I'm like a ripe stool in the world's straining anus, and at any moment we're about to let each other...
...college friends, family friends, business acquaintances-and a spate of crackpots-tip them off about investment opportunities. Unlike their father, who disliked selling any of his properties, they are on the lookout for fast situations that they can get in and out of while the profits are ripe. Above all, they prize good executives ("Management is everything"), like to leave a company's operation completely in the hands of hired managers, keeping for themselves only an advisory role...
...orders of courts or the commands of statutes are disregarded by large groups of people, whether it be in the North, the East, the South or the West. This is not the rule of law, and lawyers should speak in a loud and clear voice. The time is ripe for a great breakthrough in the field of international public order. It may be, as some say, that it is impossible to find common interests among the nations upon which to build a public order. But our mutual interest in survival is a good starting point...
...jobs. Twelve years ago, Bell & Howell promoted 29-year-old Charles H. Percy into the presidency to shake the company out of its stodgy ways. Percy diversified Bell & Howell's product line, boosted sales from $13 million to $114 million last year. Last week Chuck Percy, now a ripe 41, moved up to board chairman (keeping, however, the title of chief executive officer). His successor is another bright young man in a hurry: Executive Vice President Peter G. Peterson...