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...political instincts of a Democratic ward boss and the economic views of a conservative Republican. The son of a Scottish roofer, he quit school after the eighth grade, followed his father's trade and became a Socialist after reading Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward. He ran for mayor nine times before he finally made the grade in 1933. Bridgeport, a drab industrial city on Long Island Sound, was then nearly bankrupt. McLevy fought school expansion, kept city salaries low (his own never topped $9,300), held down taxes as long as he could. Much of the city...
...propaganda to show how resolute they are in India, how weak Khrushchev has been in Cuba. The belligerent and Spartan Peking line, perhaps required by Red China's own economic misery, may have some impact on the most doctrinaire of Communists around the world, but it is a backward and dated dogma that probably has less appeal than Khrushchev's optimistic promises of a better life and peaceful victory over capitalism. Still. should both the better life and cold war victories continue to elude Russia, the Peking line might find more adherents...
Tough Task. Teddy's landslide victory apparently carried Peabody across by 3,868 votes-at least pending a possible recount of the cliffhanging contest. At one point he seemed about to fall backward-but the discovery of a "clerical error" in Democratic Holyoke gave him an additional 8,500 votes. It seemed likely, therefore, that Peabody would get a chance to practice what he long has preached: "I want to play my part in shaping the world, and I don't believe in hiring mercenaries...
...guess I was so concerned about my liver that I didn't have time to worry about anything else. Also, I turned 40 a few months ago. and when you hit that stage you feel that maybe now people won't think of you as a stupid backward child that you wind up and send out on a stage to sing...
...years since he became president of the World Bank, rangy Eugene Black, 64, has capitalized on a unique blend of financial acuteness and infectious Southern charm to borrow some $2 billion from private investors and relend it to backward nations for carefully chosen investment projects. In the process, the international financial community has come to think of the World Bank (official title: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) as "Gene Black's bank." This week, with Black close to the mandatory retirement age, the bank's 18 executive directors will name a new boss for Gene Black...