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Campaigning for the presidency, Candidate Louis Déjoie, a rich planter, has been advertising himself as "a production engineer, not a politician." To the humble Haitian voters, Déjoie may be a haughty aristocrat, but his promises have made him a leading candidate. Last week, abundantly proving that he is not a politician, Déjoie threw away his lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: The Battle of Article 81 | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

Accolades for your splendid story [Jan. 21 ] on magnificent Macmillan. Mac is truly the ideal democratic aristocrat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 11, 1957 | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

...Britain's new Prime Minister has the elegance of an aristocrat, the literacy of a scholar, the drive of an executive. His oratorical gestures are as widely expansive as his mustache, his eyes are hound-dog sad, but his wit is quick and cheerfully malicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Chosen Leader | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...looted by the Nazis. Machines, supplies, power, credit were short or nonexistent. The only surplus was labor; Catini was saddled with 47,000 workers who by law could not be laid off. Carlo Faina, who headed Catini's Rome office, started out to rebuild the company. A cheery aristocrat who differs from Donegani in every respect except drive, he is the scion of a line that once ruled a large slice of Italy (said a medieval couplet: "From Roma to Perugia, it's all Faina"). After World War I. in which he got three decorations and was seriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Catini to the U.S. | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

Died. Theodor Koerner, 83, President of Austria since 1951 and former mayor of Vienna (1945-51), a tall, white-bearded onetime aristocrat who became a hero early in World War I, was made chief of staff of Austro-Hungarian forces on the Italian front, in 1918 took an oath of loyalty to the first Austrian Republic after the collapse of the empire; of a stroke; in Grinzing, near Vienna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 14, 1957 | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

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