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Novelist Bell writes this way, and it must have seemed to him that the technique was ideally suited to his scheme, which was to portray a marriage as the turbulent confluence of two mighty streams of lineage. Daniel (Southerner, painter, battler with Furies) and Lucy (descendant of Philadelphians, Quaker, placid repository of honor) have been married for several years when family duty demands a temporary separation. He flies to Mississippi to straighten out the affairs of a dotty aunt; she travels to the bedside of a stern Quaker uncle. The distance between husband and wife and their return to their...
...dedicated battler for democracy in Latin America all his life. Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Munoz Marin traveled from San Juan to Chicago last week to call attention to a shortcoming of the Alliance for Progress at an A.F.L.-C.I.O. national conference. "What deeply troubles me," said Munoz. "is the seeming lack of emotional commitment in Latin America toward this great and historical venture. The economic body is being gradually nourished, but the heart...
...Peace seemed likely to break out between the Chrysler Corp. and Proxy Battler Sol A. Dann, 58, the feisty Detroit lawyer who, as a stockholder (5,100 shares), has been harrying management for three years. In return for indefinite postponement of Chrysler's $30 million libel suit against him, Dann proposes to abandon his own suits against a clutch of former Chrysler executives and suppliers for alleged collusion to overcharge the company on parts...
...three, and give the Crimson a good, solid group of runners likely to place well up in the pack. Behind these are Knapp and Greg Baldwin, both reasonably reliable competitors. But after them, who knows? Don Kirkland, a 440 man on the track team, is a real battler, but his cross country experience is limited...
...Boom. Cherubic Bill Tabler, 45, who is also chairman of the codes committee of the American Institute of Architects, is an old battler against outmoded building codes. Since 1946, when he began specializing in hotels, he has built $100 million worth of hotels around the world. His latest: the Ponce in Puerto Rico. He now has another $200 million worth in the works. His hotels are noted for being profitable, but to make them so he has had to combat a host of ancient building restrictions that do not recognize the virtues of modern cost-cutting materials and methods. Since...