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...appointment of Mr. Herter as Secretary of State is the logical path that we might expect our present, incompetent Administration to follow. The profound irony behind such a move is that the Administration now in office has precisely defined its and Mr. Herter's condition: sick...
GROCER Eouard Leclerc of Landerneau, France, and Homebuilder John Long of Phoenix, Ariz, have much in common: they are both young entrepreneurs who have startled their respective industries by bringing low costs and high volume. See BUSINESS, Apostle Behind the Counter and How to Live Like a Star...
...Behind the crisis was an impending $120 million deficit and a controversy over the proper new tax to erase it (TIME, May 4). Governor Williams wants to tap a $50 million veterans' fund for immediate cash, replenish the till and wipe out the deficit with corporate and personal income taxes. Old Guard Republicans, who control the state senate, are agreeable to using the trust fund. But they want to increase Michigan's 3% sales tax to 4% and avoid an income tax, refuse to release the veterans' fund until Williams agrees. Still adamant. Soapy Williams offered...
Candid Admission. Nonetheless, in his oblique fashion, Charles de Gaulle seemed to be indicating that he knew something that everyone else had missed. A heady scent of behind-the-scenes bargaining was in the air. Modifying the rebels' previous insistence that any negotiations must be held in neutral territory, Ferhat Abbas, "Prime Minister" of the Algerian rebel government, announced that he would be willing to go to Paris to talk with De Gaulle after preliminary contacts in a neutral country...
...Lisbon last week, the Minister of the Interior belatedly announced that two months ago the government had nipped in the bud a plot to take over the country. The plot bore the preposterous name of "Operation Cocktail," and the people behind it, said the minister, included all classes and were all "most confused." Among those arrested: a priest, nine army officers, 22 civilians. Behind this threat to the 27-year dictatorship of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, police also saw the features of flamboyant General Humberto Delgado, who in last year's election got a surprising 23% of the votes...