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...that it would be able to win the votes for a temporary administrator. Secretary Rusk came out in the open and said that this is what the U.S. wants-not without earning a rebuke from unnamed delegates, quoted in the New York Times, who seemed terrified that such relatively blunt language would annoy that new deity of the U.N., The Nonaligned...
When London reporters insisted on raking over his part in planning the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan's visiting Air Defense Force chief, General Minoru Genda, 57, incautiously blurted: "I have no regrets." As his British Air Ministry hosts froze, blunt General Genda ("You must remember that in these things I speak as a soldier") hastily offered a retraction. "Yes, I do have regrets," he confessed. "We should not have attacked just once-we should have attacked again and again...
Flinching at the jangle of his office phone, Ray Toland, president of Los Angeles' Nuclear Survival Corp. last week explained to a visitor his current sales policy. Said Toland: "I have to be blunt and ask, 'Are you serious or just inquiring?' I haven't got time any more to tell people what fallout is." As a result of the Berlin crisis, builders and salesmen of nuclear fallout shelters all across the U.S. last week found themselves with more business than they could handle...
Last week, in an interview on Atlanta's station WBS-TV, Bobby Kennedy gave Segregationist Williams a blunt explanation for the difference in the Justice Department's reactions in Chicago and Alabama. "They are making an effort in Chicago to deal with the problem," he said. "The police are not standing back and waiting for people to be beaten up for ten or twelve minutes before stepping in. Where they know there is going to be disorder, they come in and try to deal with the problem. That's all we are asking...
...Blunt-spoken Donald J. Russell, 61, president of the Southern Pacific railroad, geared last week for battle. Testifying before an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing in San Francisco about the fight between the Southern Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe for control of the small but strategic Western Pacific Railroad, Don Russell argued that S.P. control of the Western would eliminate "wasteful duplication of facilities." Russell, head of the railroad with the biggest profits in the U.S. (1960 earnings: $65,400,000), is an ardent champion of mergers of competing "side-by-side" railroads. But the rival Santa Fe, whose...