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...oust Fox's President Spyros P. Skouras, 68. But the wily movie magnate outfoxed his foes with a "compromise'' settlement that put in, as executive committee chairman, Skouras' "very, very close associate" William Michel. Fingering a chain of yellow amber beads (which he uses to allay his craving for cigars), Skouras attributed his company's losses to "bad breaks," among them Elizabeth Taylor's illness, which halted the filming of Cleopatra. Moaned one investor: "We needed surgery, and we've gotten an aspirin...
...turn out to be vanishing problems. The answer for both could lie in the growth of private prepayment plans, usually combined with group practice. Communities, counties and corporations are hard at work all over the U.S. spreading such plans, and the recent benison of the A.M.A. is certain to allay the objections of many balky doctors. Therein lies the significance of Leonard Larson, a man who can look at all the ferment calmly...
...earth-moving machines have bulldozed the landscape, so have the technologists -bulldozed the manscape. Human nature, says Dr. May, has been made the object of control measures, just like any other part of nature. "Keeping busy" for its -own sake has become a neurotic anxiety. While it may allay superficial anxiety, Dr. May holds that it exacerbates the deeper and more pervasive existential anxiety, about being and nonbeing. A do-it-yourselfer in a basement workshop may be too busy watching the guard on his bench saw to worry about traditional causes of anxiety, but at heart he eventually begins...
...thus a pity that Germany's aid offer is niggardly and selfish, for generous assistance at this point would allay their worries about estrangement from Kennedy. Germany had a two billion dollar surplus in its balance of payments last year, compared with America's $3,800,000 deficit. Yet all but ten million of the billion dollar aid offer German officials have billed "generous" is earmarked for pre-payment on arms purchases and loans from the U.S. which Germany would have spent the money on anyway...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17--Secretary of Defense-designate Robert S. McNamara, who sold his Ford stock in a move to allay fears, discovered that fears persist--among the senators who must approve...