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...businessmen recruited by Dwight Eisenhower for his first Administration, the biggest was Charles Erwin Wilson, president of General Motors Corp. When blunt, chain-smoking "Engine Charlie" was named Secretary of Defense, he promised to give the job "the darnedest whirl it ever had." This week, as he heads into retirement, Charlie Wilson, 67, can look back on quite a whirl...
From Nuts to Mud. Many Deep South dailies echoed the blunt sentiments of Little Rock's street crowds. In Mississippi the Jackson Daily News's fire-breathing editor, Major Fred Sullens, addressed a one-word editorial to the President: "Nuts." (New York's Daily News picked up the editorial and flung it back under the headline: MISSISSIPPI MUD.) In Louisiana the Shreveport Journal added its jeer: "Heil Eisenhower! Heil to der great Fuehrer!" A more flattering comparison was made, however, by Mississippi's famed Hodding Carter, who telephoned his Delta Democrat-Times from a Maine vacation...
...makes no bones about his own eta origin is blunt, 70-year-old Juichiro Matsumoto, a respected Socialist in the House of Councilors, the upper chamber of the Japanese Diet. He says angrily: "There are many eta people who have risen to top ranks in their professions, including screen stars and flower-arranging masters, but they dare not be frank about their origin because their popularity would immediately drop. But before we blame them, we must blame Japan's society, which permits such discrimination...
Colonel Sumual was officially invited only as the delegate of "North Celebes," but after the conference opened, he stated his position with blunt and studied nonchalance. Said he pointedly: "I speak for East Indonesia." Chairman Djuanda interrupted. "Have you the consent of other East Indonesian areas [i.e., the Moluccas and Bali]?" "Yes," snapped Sumual, then launched into a vigorous attack against central government corruption...
Such appeasement only blurred the blunt fact that Canada still needs money for development, still lacks enough homegrown capital to supply the demand. Last week a tart reminder of these realities came from Canada itself. Wrote Calgary's Liberal-leaning Albertan...