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London: Aging Sportsman and Financier (Chase Manhattan Bank) Winthrop Aldrich, 71, will retire, probably to be replaced by a younger sportsman and financier (and Eisenhower bridge partner), John Hay ("Jock") Whitney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: New Faces Abroad | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

Both sides faced the other with harsh alternatives. Said a Soviet commander, listening to a Budapest workers' committee presenting its demands: "We approve of the right to strike, but we have many ways of bringing it to an end." Soviet field police seized the bank accounts of struck firms, arrested leading Hungarian journalists, imposed tight electric-power and food controls. Strikers had their own methods of enforcing the strike: they fired shots in front of buses that resumed running, and with hand grenades drove back workers who appeared at one factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: The Unvanquished | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...person whose pastimes were solitary (mountaineering, cycling) and whose interests were intellectual (modern poetry and modern art). Despite what colleagues called his "devastating impersonality," his brilliant record as an economist and his outstanding administrative skill made him at 31 Under Secretary of Finance, and, at 36, chairman of the Bank of Sweden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Arms & the Man | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...rest of the student body caused so much trouble that the university closed for a month. In the state of Bihar students launched a four-day reign of terror because the State Transport Authority refused to grant them special bus fares. They hurled bricks at police, raided a bank, burned the national flag. When the police finally opened fire, five people were killed. This fall more riots started at Aligarh, resulted in 24 deaths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Nursery for Anarchy | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

STIFFER ANTITRUST LAWS will be pushed in next Congress by Justice Department. Assistant Attorney General Victor Hansen, top U.S. trustbuster, will ask for power to stop bank mergers carried out by buying assets, in addition to Justice Department's existing power to act against such mergers carried out by buying stock. Hansen also wants advance notice when big companies merge, force them to give information necessary to prepare antitrust suits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Nov. 26, 1956 | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

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