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...month before, banks and insurance companies from which TWA hoped to borrow $165 million for new planes had forced Hughes to turn over his 78% of TWA stock to a three-man trusteeship dominated by Breech and Olds. Hughes had even given his approval to the board's reorganization. "It's not that we're trying to match wits with Howard Hughes," said a banker when the trust was set up. "We've given that up long ago. We're just trying to plug up all the holes...
...analytical." He and his wife Margaret (they have two daughters and a son) are active in Ann Arbor civic work. McNamara is an elder in the Presbyterian Church, practices such stern business ethics that he refuses all Christmas gifts from business contacts, rents a car on vacation rather than borrow one from the company pool. In politics, McNamara is a lukewarm, liberal Republican who often contributes to Democratic candidates. This year he voted for Kennedy...
...plans to set the Balkans afire by assassinating Marshal Tito. The wandering innocent who runs afoul of and eventually vanquishes these unpleasant plotters is an American architect named Strang. His wily adversary is a monster of plumbless evil who calls himself Odysseus-and the author does not fail to borrow a plot twist from Homer. The counter and under-the-counter intelligence agents of several countries haven't a clue about who Odysseus really is. Storyteller Maclnnes casts some forthright foreshadows, but it takes Strang and the reader most of the book to uncover the blackguard, just in time...
...this son who defends the fort, and he would be there yet, pinging away with his Enfield at the emir's thugs, if the Trucial Oman Scouts had not fetched him out. They are a dandy plot device, and Novelists Prokosch and Bowles might do well to borrow them from Innes...
Homeless because the Athletic Department set them a while back and forced them to borrow M.I.T. dinghies for practice sessions, the Crimson skippers brought in four first, a second, three thirds, a fifth and a sixth. They won some they really should have lost and lost some they could have won, but Carter Ford and crew capped the season by winning the New England Intercollegiate Sloop Championship...