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...small, devoted group of deputies. Matchmen freely admit that they use "American methods" to get stories in a country where most journalist operate with a maximum of tact and minimum of imagination. In Rome, at a elevation of new cardinals, a Match photographer disguised himself as a papal servant, ushered visitors to their seat while he quietly snapped pictures of the ceremony with a camera hidden under his robes...
Prospering in the Pharaoh's favor, the soldier aspires to the hand of the Pharaoh's sister (Gene Tierney), but the young physician cannot heal himself of his lust for a whore of Babylon (Bella Darvi). In time, Sinuhe is cured by the love of a servant girl (Jean Simmons...
...elaborate programs. In 1953 General Motors alone paid out $2,419,709 (an average $52 a suggestion); Ford paid $542,918, Du Pont $295,382. General Electric $685,842. Government agencies gave $1,362,000 for new ideas-including a $275 award (and a promotion) for one selfless civil servant who suggested abolishing his own $12,000 job. Estimated saving to Uncle Sam from such suggestions: $44 million. In many companies employee suggestions have won equal rank with research. Says a Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. executive: "Our experience has been that we get a higher return on the ideas...
...Middle East, the massacre of the Arab village of Kibya took place (TIME, Oct. 26, 1953), inflaming the area to its highest pitch since 1948. When he landed, the embittered Arab press greeted Johnston (who heads Hollywood's Motion Picture Association) by calling him the Zionist servant of a Jewish-controlled industry; the eight-nation Arab League rejected his scheme, sight unseen. Jordan said it would rather suffer economic disaster than cooperate "directly or indirectly" with the Israelis. Iraq sent word to Johnston not to bother to come (but later shamefacedly invited him). Only the Israelis were polite...
...Indo-China war's third year, the French installed Bao Dai, playboy descendant of old Annamite kings, as Viet Nam's chief of state. But Bao Dai usually complied with French demands, and therefore got almost no public support, while Moscow Servant Ho Chi Minh was often admired simply because he was anti-French. Not until last month did Viet Nam get a genuinely nationalist Prime Minister, Ngo Dinh Diem - probably too late to make up for France's long refusal to prepare the Vietnamese for self-government and self-defense, probably too late to save...