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...state so casually that "No man in either U.S. party approaches him (Ike) in stature" is just too much. Fortunately, there are many men in at least one party who surpass Eisenhower in many characteristics. It is too bad that the Republican Party is so bankrupt (with its Jenners, Knowlands, Nixons, Dirksens and McCarthys). I do believe most strongly in the two-party system, but I would hate to think that our country would have to depend entirely...
...army's East End hostel, Brigadier Langdon celebrated the same anniversary by writing the words "Case successful" on another dossier-of a partner in a bankrupt decorating firm who had cashed a bad check to get clothes for his children, then had come up to London to kill himself (among other things, the Salvation Army made good the check...
...behind the festival is the Metropolitan Opera's young (35) stage director, Dino Yannopoulos. Faced with a bankrupt opera company, an unenthusiastic government and a paltry $50,000 budget, Yannopoulos talked the Met stars into appearing for a fraction of their regular fees. A Greek shipowner undertook to transport the Philharmonic from Naples. Then, with only weeks to go, Yannopoulos settled down to the task of training the 96-voice chorus of Greeks to sing Italian. The results were spectacular, but Yannopoulos was not surprised. "This is the place where the chorus was born," say-he. "It should...
...filling stations, and to buy up Alberta oil lands. Western Leaseholds is one of Alberta's soundest companies, with 160 producing wells and drilling rights on some 2,400,000 acres of oil land. The deal was fabulously profitable for Lawyer Harvie. More than 20 years ago, a bankrupt client gave him the then-worthless rights to the best part of the land in payment of a legal fee. Harvie cannily held them until they yielded a fortune...
...would not want this opportunity to pass," he announced, "and . . . appear to give the impression that I subscribe to [McCarthy's] point of view . . . We are not bankrupt in our negotiating power . . . The President [will] do everything possible to protect the vital interests of the country and of the free world [at the Geneva Conference]." Then he urged united support of the President and of the Geneva meeting...