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Tavares' resignation leaves Donald Reid Cabral, 41, who joined the triumvirate last December, as the man completely in charge. A shrewd, tough-minded onetime auto dealer, Reid is trying to lead the country into new elections by mid-1965. Six political parties have ratified a plan for two elections-for the Constituent Assembly and the presidency. But deposed President Juan Bosch's supporters and two other parties are withholding their support. Bosch followers are demanding full political freedom for their exiled leader; the other holdouts want more guarantees that a free election will be held. Not until...
...known as snak). The non-Aryan Finns are of nomadic Magyar stock and are caricatured as somnolent, introverted and dour. The isolated Norwegians have a reputation for being tough, brave and simple. The Swedes, who were greatly influenced in the 19th century by Germany, are thought of as stiff, shrewd and neurotic. If a Norwegian invents something, according to one theory, a Swede will patent it, and a Dane will be in charge of promotion...
Three Leaders. Johnson's Wax has done things differently ever since the late Samuel Curtis Johnson, a salesman of wood flooring, sent along a can of wax with each parquet floor he sold 78 years ago. That proved to be a shrewd idea, for parquet dropped out of fashion a few years later, and Johnson went into wax fulltime. Today the company that he founded is led by a troika. Grandson H. F. (for Herbert Fisk) Johnson, 64, board chairman, directs marketing. Great-Grandson Samuel Curtis Johnson, 36, is executive vice president in charge of new products...
...before voting time. Illinois Republican Everett McKinley Dirksen, 68, the Senate's minority leader, arose slowly from his front-row desk. He was the man most were waiting to hear, not merely because he is the Senate's most practiced and professional orator but largely because he is the shrewd, patient negotiator whose efforts, perhaps more than anyone else's, had made a favorable cloture vote likely. With great deliberation Dirksen took off his tortoise-shell spectacles, revealing his sad, bloodhound eyes underlined by deep, dark pouches. In his massive left hand, its little finger flourishing a green jade ring...
...bones," he began in that gravel voice before which many an editor learned to quail. "My legs are very weak, but I still have something in the way of a head. I am still headstrong, and self-willed at that. I will try to make you a speech. Many shrewd observers will say that I have not had any pattern or continuous theme in my long life. Certainly I have. But I have never been a successful leader. I have always been an apprentice...