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...never killed anyone in those days. I didn't want to be a dictator again because this time I might have to." Then Laurel and Tañada came back and asked him to lead a peaceful "crusade to free the country from the morally and finan cially bankrupt Quirino administration," and he agreed...
...bill of Bayonne (pop. 81,500), has a $1,000,000 monthly payroll for its 1,800 workers. Said Mississippi-born Edwards: "If we pull out and shift the tax load to other industries, a number of these other industries will also pull out. The city would go bankrupt...
Died. Preston Thomas Tucker, 53, fast-talking auto designer who tantalized the car-starved U.S. public in 1946 with plans for the revolutionary (air-cooled rear engine, fuel injection, 130 m.p.h.) Tucker Torpedo, went bankrupt after producing a few hand-built models; of lung cancer; in Ypsilanti, Mich. Visionary Tucker was cleared in 1950 of U.S. charges of mail fraud and SEC violations, claimed Government meddling and malevolent auto tycoons did him in, by 1955 was riding another rear-engined dream, trying to promote $2,000,000 to build...
...QUIET AMERICAN, by Graham Greene. Novelist Greene's expedition to wartime Indo-China, showing him as skillful as ever at playing fictional charades with good and evil. His U.S. idealist, born out of Greene's pathological anti-Americanism, comes off only a little worse than his morally bankrupt Englishman, but the book's importance lies in the fact that many Europeans share Greene's phobia...
Bristling Messages. In classic diplomatic fashion, Dwight Eisenhower moved surefootedly on these fundamentals of security to dampen the flash points of potential outbreak. Specifically, he set about 1) making plain to the world in the forum of the U.N. that Communism had again shown itself morally bankrupt after the barbarous suppression of satellite independence; 2) stopping the Egypt tinderbox fighting before the Russians had the chance and the time to pour in "volunteers...