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...President s brief, blunt remark was deliberate understatement. For months trie Cuban skies have belonged to U S photo planes-soaring, diving, circling appearing and disappearing on swift, unexpected tangents. Diplomats may still argue about on-site inspection of Cuban missile bases, but the question is almost academic. Under the prying eyes of U S aerial cameras. Cuba lies as exposed as a nude in a swimming pool...
...office Townsend is a brusque, blunt executive who would rather duck into a man's office for a talk than use the telephone. With Townsend, says one hardworking Chrysler official, "the needle is always out?but always in good humor." Says Chairman George Love: "He has the rare capacity to persuade his associates to express opinions contrary to his own." Adds Love of his own relationship with Townsend: "Let's say Townsend has an uncle?an uncle with some experience m managing a pretty tough coal business. This uncle is looking over his nephew's shoulder because the uncle...
...Manhattan department store salesman. Dale was a blunt redhead with a lifelong fascination for fire engines. He began playing the horses when he was 14, later joined a Wall Street firm that specialized in railroad bonds, was one of the first to make a fortune out of the sale of public utility securities. His wife Maud had a passion for art that proved contagious. "She had the knowledge.'' Dale said. "I had the acquisitiveness.'' And that was how the great collection began...
Wild Ungulata. A soapbox liberal on most issues, Young is also a blunt opponent of Government bureaucracy. Investigating expenditures of the Health, Education and Welfare Department, he once hooted at HEW grants for research projects on the social role of wild ungulata ($8,205), Indian caste cohesiveness and personality development ($7,820), the ontogeny of English phrase structure ($2,100), and blood groups genetics of Southampton Island Eskimos...
...Light-skinned African." Rupert believes in the twelve-hour workday, has been known to hole up in a London hotel suite for six solid days, running one business conference after another without ever going outdoors. Suave and friendly in social situations, he is blunt about business. Once during a slump in cigarette sales in South Africa, Rupert called in his salesmen and told them that if the slump continued, he would fire them before he fired production workers. Sales picked up almost immediately...