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Bilingual by virtue of his French father and English mother, Laguerre has had a bright career in journalism. The blunt criticisms of his country's public relations that he offered to De Gaulle landed him the job of press officer for the Free French. By the early 1950s, Laguerre had been TIME'S bureau chief in both London and Paris...
...nearly $100 million last year), thereby increasing the combined worth of the two companies. Such benefits appeal especially to Harold H. Hammer, Gulfs chief financial officer, who worked out the proposal. Hammer joined Gulf about a year ago after a clash with his old employer: William C. Norris, the blunt chairman of Control Data Corp., for whom Hammer had put together a string of mergers...
...ruin him, Spiro Agnew is taking on a formidable opponent. A savvy bureaucratic infighter who has risen higher in the Justice Department than any other civil service employee, Petersen has many influential defenders in Washington. He is the plain speaking, rugged Chief of the Criminal Division, whose engagingly blunt testimony before the Senate Watergate committee won the respect of millions of television viewers...
Shocked by the brutality of the war, and traumatized by the death of his friend and fellow poet Federico Garcia Lorca, Neruda pruned from his own writing much of its detached symbolism. Instead, he began to turn out blunt, vertiginous, often satirical verse-poetry that Neruda once described as "written with blood...
...propaganda campaign for a "Yes" vote on radio. T.V., and with posters everywhere you looked. At the same time no permission was given for radio or T.V. time for opposing views and it was against the law to put up (or carry) signs advocating a "No" vote. These rather blunt tactics seem to be an attempt to fool the world and the U.S. in particular into thinking that Papadopoulos is restoring democracy in Greece and that he has the Greek people behind him. He relies on our ignorance and apathy for the continued support of America in his totalitarian endeavors...