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...alarmed that the rail-only link might cut their earnings by forcing them to piggyback through the tunnel. Joined by British and French steelmakers, who stand to sell about 800,000 tons of steel if a bridge is built, the truckers set up a pro-bridge group headed by shrewd, forceful Jules Moch, last Interior Minister of France under the Fourth Republic...
...running the tremendously awkward machinery of a fragmented and stubborn House was actually a very new one, for he introduced to the Speakership an entirely different politics of control. His great predecessors-men like Cannon and "Czar" Reed-were largely parliamentary tyrants. Rayburn was more, because he was shrewd enough to realize that stamping on all Congressmen is nowhere near so effective as encouraging the talents of good ones, and muting the efforts of bad ones...
...title of the smash hit musical of Broadway's new season-How to Succeed m Business Without Really Trying -is actually a bit misleading. The hero is energetic, guileful, scheming, ambitious, shrewd, sly and ruthless. In short, he really tries hard, and his swift progression from window washer to chairman of the board is accomplished with such finesse that you scarcely notice the blood on the corpses. The character, in fact, is so basically repulsive that there is probably only one Broadway actor who could turn this despicable crud into the most lovable monster since Barrie's crocodile...
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar is a shrewd, cold, and almost entirely frank dictator, and it is because of these qualities that Portuguese elections are affairs quite unlike any other political activity in the West. Those who show up at the polls, as 65 per cent of the electorate is supposed to have done this year, register their votes for the regime calmly and without much interest. Those who actively boycott the election or who support opposition groups may shout and run about at the time, but after November settle once again into silence...
Died. Joseph M. Schenck, 82, ex-chairman of 20th Century-Fox and United Artists, Hollywood's patient, genial master decision maker who spanned cinema history from the silents to wide-screen extravaganzas; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills. A shrewd and durable Russian immigrant with a talent for bargaining that propelled him from a drugstore in Manhattan's Chinatown to an estimated $100 million in movie earnings, Schenck possessed a way with people that won him the trust of all filmdom, enabled him to function as Hollywood's peacemaker (he settled the long-standing feud between...