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Calm Focus. Shrewd and impenetrably affable, Dulles talked with calm realism. Let's get things in focus, was his theme. One and only one basic, unifying interest had brought members together: mutual defense against their Soviet Communist neighbor. Dulles argued that the U.S. could do more for the Baghdad nations by remaining outside the pact than by joining. The Baghdad Pact commits its members only to "cooperate for their security and defense." Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, Dulles pointed out, the U.S. is pledged to send its armed forces, on request, to the aid of any Middle East nation...
...luck that saved Bill from the steel mills still held when he got to Charles Town. He was hired by Norman ("Junie") Corbin. a shrewd trainer, a wise and patient teacher, and probably the ideal man to bring Bill along. Hawkfaced Junie Corbin needed an exercise boy to work horses, muck out the stables and clean tack, and Bill was glad...
...Lion of Indonesia") still ringing in his gratified ears, anti-Communist politicians and dissident army commanders of the outlying provinces met to muster their forces and concert their plans at the Central Sumatran capital of Padang. The conferences began some three weeks ago in deepest secrecy. Summoned by shrewd, stocky Colonel Maludin Simbolon, the dissident commanders flew in from the Celebes and South Sumatra. The officers are mostly young colonels, and all are anti-Communists who run their areas with cool efficiency and a minimum of corruption. Soon the colonels were joined, uninvited, by some of Indonesia...
...million on stock it had bought in the New York Central. To make matters worse, Bob Young was being challenged in the courts by a former associate named Randolph Phillips, who blocked some of Young's pet plans for Alleghany Corp. (TIME, May 6). So insistent and shrewd was Phillips' opposition that Young ranted and raved about him in private, hardly dared come to New York publicly for fear of being served with another Phillips summons...
Prison School. Ranged next month against Khalil and the Umma Party will be a conglomeration of rival political and religious factions, chief of which is the National Unionist Party headed by short, shrewd Sayed Ismail el Azhari, an ex-schoolteacher and longtime nationalist whom the British once jailed ("In a backward country, prison is the politician's university, and I graduated," he says). El Azhari, who is an alumnus of the American University of Beirut, was financed largely with Egyptian money in the Sudan's last elections four years ago, is campaigning for "closer ties" with Egypt...