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...been a notable friend of the broadcasting industry. His successor as FCC chairman: Frederick W. Ford, 50, a tough, shrewd West Virginia lawyer, a member of the FCC for three years, a good friend of Attorney General William Rogers, and an advocate of stern new regulations to curb the excesses of the industry...
...company, succeeding Adriano Olivetti, who, before his death fortnight ago, transformed his father's small typewriter business into a worldwide manufacturer of office machines and machine tools. Directors passed over Olivetti's son Roberto and several other Olivetti family members to pick stumpy, white-maned Pero, the shrewd, early-rising (5:30 a.m.) executive who has been director general since 1938. He is expected to let Adriano Olivetti's political adventures (i.e., his Community Movement) die, devote all his efforts strictly to business...
...same time he is a shrewd entertainer who admits he will stop at nothing to keep his audiences awake. In three of his pictures he has shown a Shakespearean fascination with the life of the strolling player, the poor mountebank who, "like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven as make the angels weep." Clearly, he sees himself as such an ape. Says Bergman: "I perform conjuring tricks with a conjuring apparatus so expensive and so wonderful that any performer in history would have given anything to use it. I am really a conjurer...
...whose verbal policy is not massive retaliation but massive assault, Alexander King is startlingly wispy in physique and disarmingly gentle in manner. His droopy white mustache straggles for existence on a face that frequently crinkles with shrewd, sloe-eyed smiles. King (original name: Koenig) came to the U.S. just before World War I with his father, a research chemist, and a lovably scatterbrained mother...
Last week, as soon as the voters approved his constitution, Premier Ahidjo dramatically lifted the ban against Moumié's UPC. But what seemed like a surrender was actually a shrewd move. In the "general's" absence, a strong and respectable opposition has grown up within his party, and Moumié himself seems to be slipping: in the face of his personal command to boycott the referendum, a record 75% of the entire electorate still went to the polls...