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...Publisher Hulton ran into trouble. His erratic ideas for Picture Post were frequently at odds with Hopkinson's shrewd journalistic thinking. Moreover, the political views of Hopkinson, a far left-winger (though no Communist), were too strong for Conservative Hulton's taste. Their scrapping broke into the open after the Korean war began, when Hopkinson tried to run pictures showing South Koreans mistreating prisoners. Hulton fired him and marched in a succession of less talented editors who never struck Hopkinson's artful balance between popular picture features and solid-text pieces. Circulation dipped to 935,829, while...
...Said a shrewd U.S. observer in London last week: "However logical U.S. and British caution may appear, it does not make much sense. There is such a thing as being oversubtle, even in Middle Eastern politics. In rushing to Naguib's side, there may be a danger that we would play into the hands of his enemies. But that risk should in any case be carefully weighed against the danger that, by lurking melodramatically in the wings and croaking encouragement, we may let pass the best chance to build along the right lines that we have...
Oilmen acknowledge Alfred Jacobsen, Amerada Petroleum's president, as king of the explorers. After others had vainly scouted the Williston Basin since the early '20s, Jacobsen last year sank the well that tapped one of the country's richest oil pools. But shrewd Oilman Jacobsen did not rest on the triumph; he already had his seismograph crews roaming north west Alberta in a hunt for new treasure. Oilmen have long guessed that an oil-rich coral-reef formation underlies Alberta's Peace River Basin, about 200 miles northwest of Canada's vast Leduc field...
...Purpose. He turned to the kind of shrewd analysis of Communist forces which the U.S. seldom hears from its officials. The Russians, he said, have not yet attained a position from which they can accomplish the most important of their objectives, "economic containment and gradual strangulation of America . . . They know that our productive power, our economic strength is acutely dependent upon vast quantities of critical materials that we import from other sections of the globe. Their method, therefore, is to infiltrate those areas, to seize them, control them and so deny us those materials that we so badly need...
...course of this investigation Adams made himself an American historian of absolutely first rank, a shrewd political observer, and an old sourpuss. Democracy, republished this week for the first time in a quarter-century, is one of the two novels Adams wrote in his lifelong expostulation with a nation that failed to give him his birthright. Though the U.S. has achieved success and power far beyond Adams' gloomy dreams,* Democracy, first published anonymously in 1879, is still just about the best satire ever written about the Government of the U.S. "The Prairie Giant." The business of the book...