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...sobering reports on the second Soviet missile firing in mid-Pacific. Last week's long-range shot into an area 1,000 miles southwest of Honolulu was seen and monitored by a U.S. Navy plane crew, proved that the Russian ICBM is indeed very sophisticated. As the missile bore in at a re-entry angle of 18° (which indicated that the Soviets fired at maximum range), a capsulelike object was detached from the nose cone and dipped into the ocean. Both hit near the middle of a triangle of three Soviet ships, each three to five miles apart...
Many another top executive sadly observes that the man who is brilliant in the boardroom is often a bore at the microphone. "Too many businessmen cannot give a speech; they have to make an address," says Chicago Executives' Club President Clint Youle, who has heard hundreds of them. "They speak on subjects so lofty they cannot say anything that has not been said umpteen times before." Furthermore, says one Florida executive, many businessmen are barely articulate, mumble in meaningless cliches (some favorites: "broadly defined policies," "hitting the mark foursquare"), talk only to each other, and say only what they...
...crisis bore the name of the man most closely identified with the one big success of the De Gaulle era-Finance Minister Antoine Pinay. Hopefully, peace may one day crown De Gaulle's efforts in Algeria, history may yet regard De Gaulle's generosity to the restless states of French West Africa as high statesmanship, but the one here-and-now triumph of the regime has been economic. And that is the province of short, commonsensical Antoine Pinay, 68, onetime leader of the powerful right-wing Independents in France's National Assembly and one of the Fourth...
...Algiers military district, the inspectors found six prisoners, three of whom displayed recent contusions, jammed into a single cell; at their feet lay the corpse of yet another Moslem who had died unattended during the preceding night. At Telagh, in Oran military district, the wrists of several prisoners still bore the marks of ropes used to hang them from the ceiling during interrogations. And at the small (152 men) camp of Bou-Gobrine, so many prisoners had been killed "while attempting to escape," that the inspectors dryly suggested that "this question would appear to deserve closer study...
Caviar & Cliaos. But U.S. policymakers saw little profit in trying to make a free-world bastion out of an isolated jungle nation whose government had so little popular support. The chaos left after Communist hit-and-run attacks amply bore out a U.N. report's blunt findings that massive aid to Laos ($225 million from the U.S. since 1955) " not so far achieved significant results." The Laotian army, on which 70% of the U.S. aid was spent, has shown itself an unimpressive fighting force; most of the rest of the U.S. money, instead of being used to finance rural...