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...businessman was more global-minded than Sosthenes Behn, who created the world web of $760 million International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. Behn stretched his communications empire from Antwerp to Osaka, steered it through 34 years of war, revolution, boom and bust, and boom again. Always somehow able to snatch cash from disaster, he had a secret: a skill at diplomacy that few foreign ministers could match, a grip on his company that only a last tycoon could keep...
...served, until Peron emasculated it, since 1853. The regime wiped Peron's name from public display in Argentina, except for curbstone scribblings and his father's tomb. An expedition was sent up Aconcagua, the Hemisphere's highest (alt. 22,835 ft.) mountain, to topple a bust of the dictator. A team of clerks screened thousands of references to his name from the Buenos Aires telephone book-but recently discovered that the listing of the "Committee to Obtain the Nobel Prize for Perón" had somehow slipped through...
Jose Buscaglia's sculpture marks him as one of the most proficient and talented of this group of artists. The bust of Don Jose is imposing. The surface treatment is unusual and very expressive. Childbirth of a Country Woman, also in plaster, is as much a technical achievement but far less successful. The moods of the two figures, the man and woman are so opposed that it is impossible to believe that that two human beings could be in proximity. The kneeling man's expression of contemplation is quite out of keeping with the shriek of pain that writhes from...
...events only the click of billiard balls, the slap of a pingpong paddle, and a kitchenbroom's swish break a sluggish silence in the building. He ignores its pictures of old athletes on the walls, hangs campaign posters from mounted buffalo heads, and ties bibs around John Harvard's bust in the dining room...
...added his point that the U.S. cannot turn back to 1890. Best translation: Ike intends to stick by his Modern Republican guns, but he does not intend to turn them on the other wing of his party ("Our job," explained a top ranker in the National Committee, "is to bust a gut to elect every Republican who gets nominated...