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...presidential palace, where he had been hiding since the French put him back in power, Autocrat Mba promised a thorough investigation. But it took no board of inquiry to conclude that Mba and the French have only themselves to blame for allowing "sterile agitation" to blossom into fecund antigovernment, anti-French feeling. It may be a long time before French troops dare pull out of Gabon...
Jaunty old Canon Kir is a Gallic equivalent of the late Fiorello La Guardia-a Napoleon-sized (5 ft. 3 in.) "autocrat" with no inhibitions. In his normal dress of beret, black cassock and high-laced shoes, Kir occasionally descends on the gendarmé directing traffic at Dijon's Coin du Miroir, takes over, creates monumental traffic tie-ups. At the inauguration of a new public school gymnasium, Kir, cassock and all, shinnied up five feet of rope to answer a photographer's challenge. When he found himself locked out of his apartment, Kir stalked back...
Running lights, inexpensive and easy to install, are sparkling all over the Midwest and are expected soon to permeate even the conservative East. Autocrat Manufacturing Co. of Ypsilanti, Mich., is turning them out at the rate of 10,000 a day and is planning to sell 5,000,000, ranging in price from $1.79 to $2.79, in the next 18 months. A competitor, Amsco Manufacturing Co. of South Bend, Ind., has had two lights ($1.95 and $2.95) in production for only a couple of months, and is already making 2,000 lights...
...does spark one sizzling scene of class animus at a drunken, brawling Christmas party. The wing commander (Dallas Cavell), a jowly autocrat who regards the conscripts as disgusting animals and wants to see them make a loutish display of themselves, calls for some rock-'n'-roll music. Pip stops the music and coaxes one of the conscripts to sing The Cutty Wren, an old folk song of peasant revolt. It begins with the stilly calm of a Christmas carol, but as the stanzas become more aggressive, the conscripts improvise a louder and louder beat of spoon on glass...
...1930s. All the auto companies, but mostly Ford, gained a sorry renown for the driving tactics of their harsh foremen and production speedups. The secret policeman, the stool pigeon and the scab nourished. When these tactics were protested by Ford's only son, Edsel, the old autocrat gradually withdrew from him, both professionally and personally, and gave increasing powers and recognition to his devious little chief of "internal security," Harry Bennett, a former sailor and sometime boxer...