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...city's 1,200,000 population. They wormed their way into control of unions, and organized a handy riot squad of 3,000 students (whose schools, say wags, now teach "reading, rioting and 'rithmetic"). To pay their way, they shook down wealthy Chinese merchants, those shrewd barometers of "who's ahead," who have become convinced that Red Peking is the way of the future...
AIRCRAFT MERGER TALK between Lockheed and Bell has pushed their stocks up on the New York Stock Exchange. Though both companies say that nothing is imminent, the deal would be a shrewd diversification move for both: Lockheed makes chiefly fixed-wing planes, while Bell is hip-deep in rocket engines, guided missiles, helicopters...
...surprise and relief, most Laborites broke into cheers. But only silence came from Gaitskell's supporters, who had seen in Attlee's departure Gaitskell's chance for promotion. For Bevan, it was a shrewd move. The election had cost him three of his top supporters in the House, and cut the majorities of others. It was no time to make a bid for power. And he had repaid a debt to Attlee, who saved him from expulsion last March. After a short debate, Bevan rose to ask Attlee: "Well, what is your answer?" Attlee rose...
...have obviously spent many hours of near-simian ingenuity on Analyze Yourself. Though many of their conclusions are demonstrably false ("Don Juan or donkey, we are all alike in our love-making") and sometimes alarming ("Every male in the grip of passion behaves . . . like an impetuous bull"), others are shrewd and accurate, e.g., "As an artist ... do not labor under any illusion that society will safeguard or sustain...
Beirut, Lebanon Sir: I am still chuckling at Priestley's comments . . . John Boynton Priestley and I went to different schools in Bradford, Yorkshire ; you know, where the pudding comes from. His evaluation of all that religious conversion is as correct as it is shrewd and witty. I, too, know the "hunger for a show" of the British people-and why confine it to the British anyway? As for that Irish newspaper which said that Billy had taken Ireland by storm even in absentia: phooey! MAUD CHEGWIDDEN San Francisco Sir: If Graham goes for orange juice, the unpriestly Priestley...