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...first member of Adolf Hitler's Cabinet to visit Britain since Rudolf Hess parachuted into Scotland in 1941, pink-cheeked Financial Wizard Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, 78, now a rapidly rising Düsseldorf banker, moseyed into London. In and out of courts and jails for five postwar years, Dr. Schacht now played the role of a cagey grandpa, beaming craftily, bustling to see old acquaintances, dropping plugs for his recently published memoirs, My First Seventy-Six Years. Interviewed by indifferent or downright hostile London newsmen, Banker Schacht had glib answers for questions. His estimate of West Germany...
...Leaguers made a deal with aging and fat Fazlul Huq. Result: Huq, last year dismissed as Chief Minister of East Pakistan for "treasonable activities," now became the Minister of the Interior. The man who emerged as Premier in the deal was Chaudhri Mohammed Ali, Pakistan's financial wizard...
MIKOYAN: A shrewd, sharp Armenian and a wizard at trade and barter. Intellect: brilliant. Force of character: limited...
...Teller, now professor of physics at the University of California; Dr. Hans Bethe, first to calculate systematically all thermonuclear reactions; Dr. Theodore von Kármán, who developed Jato, later served as chief scientific adviser to the Air Force; Massachusetts Institute of Technology's electricity wizard...
...Trevor Gardner, 39, brilliant, onetime boy wizard of the West Coast engineering and electronics industry (e.g., rockets) was nominated Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for the second time in six months. The first nomination of Gardner, a close friend of J. Robert Oppenheimer. was blocked in the Senate by Senator Bourke Hickenlooper. After studying Gardner's case, Hickenlooper announced last week that he would not again oppose the nomination...