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Mossadegh was a master of the divide-and-conquer technique, uniting one day with a fanatic mullah to oust a rival Premier, allying himself with the Reds the next to break the mullah. He got rid of the ablest of the Shah's advisers like Court Minister Hussein Ala; he usurped the royal prerogative of dissolving the Majlis. The outlawed Communists, for supporting him, were left untouched and grew in strength...
...mission to discover what the U.S. is really like, two of France's ablest magazine reporters flew into Kansas City early this year. Pierre Gosset, 42, and his 35-year-old wife Renée, who write as a team for Paris' handsome, perceptive monthly Réaltiés, had previously explored 58 countries, from Argentina to Zanzibar. Last week, in the August number of Réaltiés' French edition (circ. 135,000),* the Cossets told their story of life in the U.S., as seen "through fresh eyes" on their two-month, 27-state...
Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, regarded by many as the ablest businessman in Eisenhower's "business administration," has also fallen heir to the toughest problems. Last week he wrestled with the toughest one yet: how to keep the world's biggest business from going technically "broke." Congress' refusal to raise the $275 billion limit on the U.S. debt (TIME, Aug. 10) made it entirely possible that Humphrey would not have adequate means to pay the Government's bills...
...some crewing on Gerard B. Lambert's Yankee, another of the big J Class boats, which raced against Ranger for the honor of defending the cup. In the Ranger's afterguard, i.e., board of strategy, was Long Island Sailor Arthur Knapp Jr., one of Corny's ablest continuing rivals for local and national sailing honors...
...ablest of all German generals," British Military Historian Liddell Hart called him. "Our finest operational brain," said Panzer General Heinz Guderian, an exacting judge. Erich von Manstein charted the daring Panzer thrust through the Ardennes that split the Allied armies and defeated France, and was assigned to lead the German landing in Britain (Operation Sea-Lion ) that never happened (because the amazing British beat off Goring's air assault). In Russia, he opened the fortified gateway to the Crimean peninsula, stormed the Russian Black Sea naval bastion at Sevastopol, and led the counterattack that retook Kharkov in March...