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...qualify for the program, an executive is first chosen from the ranks of his own firm. Some companies use the AMP sessions as training periods for men they desire to promote to higher jobs. For the executive, company sponsorship can be the touch of the sword-promotion--and it is not lightly regarded. Over half the class is earmarked for a specific promotion before they take the course. They fall into the amalgam of controllers, assistant treasurers, sales managers, and production engineers labeled "middle management" and the course prepares them for "top management...
...Queen's mouth about "My Ministers' " intentions on home building and foreign policy probably changed nobody's vote. But the occasion did set the Manchester Guardian to musing about the meaning of ceremony in a democracy: "The Imperial State Crown, the Cap of Maintenance, the Sword of State, the Heralds, the Lord Great Chamberlain and the Earl Marshals make up a beautiful charade, but if all were swept away tomorrow it would make not the slightest difference to the government of the country...
Dessie, Ethiopia Four Horsemen Sir: The identification of the first two Horse men in Revelations seems so obvious that I am amazed at ex-President Hoover's attempt [TIME, Sept. 29] to make the second Horse man stand for Revolution. On a red horse, with a great sword, he takes "peace from the earth"and makes men "kill one another...
...cease-fire in the Formosa Strait, and Red China's Defense Minister Peng Teh-huai sent a special message to the Nationalists proposing peace talks between Chinese Communists and Chinese Nationalists. While holding out what may or may not be an olive branch, Peng also turned the sword in a new wound. "The Americans are bound to go," he said to the Nationalists. "They have to go. The day will come when the Americans will abandon...
...said Arriba, "are infinitely superior to those of Emperor Augustus, Charles V, and Napoleon." Such men as Franco, concluded the Catholic Ya, "are the instruments of the highest designs of Providence." The Monarchist A.B.C. recalled Vichy Marshal Petain's remark that Generalissimo Franco's "is the cleanest sword in Europe." Only the Syndicalist paper Pueblo avoided sycophantic assent. Wrote Pueblo sharply: "We believe that rhetoric is indissolubly united to the decadence of Spain over the past centuries...