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Giovanni Battista Montini, 61, Archbishop of Milan, is one of the ablest men in the church, served under Pius XII as pro-Secretary of State for ten years. Shifted from the Vatican to the Milan diocese in 1954, he still wears no red hat; not for almost 600 years has a noncardinal been chosen...
...life intertwines his state's segregation struggle much as the Virginia creeper chokes the mountain forests. As the attorney general who argued Virginia's school cases before the Supreme Court, Lindsay Almond is one of segregation's ablest legal advocates. "Don't you kid yourself," says a longtime Almond adversary, N.A.A.C.P. Special Counsel Thurgood Marshall. "He is a good lawyer." Precisely because he is a good lawyer, Lindsay Almond understands that Virginia, in its "massive resistance" delaying tactics, is merely living from stay to stay. Sighed the Governor last week, "We might have to take...
...loves and labors leave the cuprous taste of pennies in their mouths; the middle-income bracket is their social vise. Few writers have probed the masked anxieties of the "have-not-enoughs" with the skill and authority of John (The Wapshot Chronicle) Cheever, 46. After Marquand, he is the ablest chronicler of the interior life of the organization...
...vice premier of Guinea. A onetime Marxist and incorrigible troublemaker for France, he is a ruthless man who used to burn the houses of his enemies, and looks upon the loi-cadre as only one step toward autonomy. But the French regard him benignly as one of the ablest administrators in the whole territory. "I am no socialist," says he, "and neither are my colleagues. We have studied the principles of socialism, Communism, the M.R.P., the European Unionists, and we have adopted principles which correspond to the needs of Africa today." Chief need of Africa: "Lots of capital...
...hands-and the very real strength of the deployed U.S. Armed Forces-by agreeing to negotiate too much and to make unnecessary concessions: "We've got 'em by the tail. Don't let 'em go." But Secretary Dulles, at one of his ablest press conference performances, did his best to define some needed guidelines...