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Fearful that the upcoming trial of Adolf Eichmann might provoke a new era of anti-German feeling, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer held a rare press conference, expressed his concern. "We Germans," said he, "are apt to forget that part of our past which was anything but pleasant more quickly than people in the countries affected by it." A proxy statement from the stockholder-harassed Chrysler Corp., which just en joyed its first profitable year since 1957, mentioned a raise for Chairman-President Lester Lum Colbert, whose compensation totaled $260,650. Colbert's compact-era 1960 salary boost...
...push the forthcoming The Wonders of Aladdin-Mrs. Levine gets busy in her own Newton Centre, Mass., workshop. With such help, plus his own shrewd eye for mass entertainment, Joe Levine has emerged as an energy-charged captain in an industry full of spent majors. The new Hollywood is apt to forget the old rules, and says Levine with a Barnum air, "we are reminding everyone that this is a circus business...
Almost as debilitating as the contact injuries are the rigors of travel. Any N.B.A. team is apt to find itself playing seven games in as many cities within ten days. As the westernmost team, Los Angeles this season will travel 100,000 miles to play a 79-game schedule. Conspicuous as a herd of giraffes, the N.B.A.'s big men have learned to cope with an alien world of threatening doorframes and ridiculously small chairs. At night they drape their feet over suitcase racks placed at the ends of their Hollywood-style hotel beds. After a game, supper...
...been shaken, and by book's end he knows an old truth but one not easily come by: that people know about others only what is comfortable to know. The "real Silvestri'' is another man entirely. This is the way of the world, the reader is apt to say, and it will happen again tomorrow. But it will take a writer of Soldati's talent to tell it again as well as it is told here...
Extra-curricular Life. Oxford does not suffer greatly from professionalism in extra-curricular activities. Orchestras and theatrical groups come and go in lively fashion; faculty control a la Loeb would be unthinkable. Undergraduates are less apt than they are here to commit themselves to a single organization...