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Personality: Informal and friendly; candid in conversation; works hard, long hours, sleeps easily, except on trains or planes which make him airsick; prefers bow ties. Says an associate: "Mike is a very complicated character. The first thing you find out working with him is that he's not the simple barefoot boy people think...
From the U.S. official closest to the Iranian oil crisis for the longest time, Henry Grady, U.S. ambassador to Teheran for 14 months, came an undiplomatically candid comment on the diplomatic break. "Had Britain and the U.S. backed [General Ali] Razmara, the former Iranian Prime Minister who was a friend of the West and who was fighting the nationalization movement, this present situation would not have developed," Grady said in San Francisco. "Nor would Razmara have been assassinated...
...Eisenhower has done," Bundy said, "is to accept the support of all branches of his party and in return to urge a general support for all Republicans. I doubt whether anyone can show me where Stevenson has refused support to any Democrat. I will add that it is more candid for Ike to support McCarthy while opposing his methods than it is for Stevenson to profess ignorance of the views of Senator McCarran...
...Venice itself, a group of young U.S. painters made a deep bow to the Venetian past. They were the members of a small U.S. art colony that has settled since war's end in the city with the candid intention of learning all they can from the work of the old Venetian masters. Last week ten of them hung up 35 of their pictures in a 15th century palazzo and invited the town in to see the results...
...brought suit to compel I.D.S. to follow a policy of "full dis- osure," stressing objections as well as advantages to its savings plans, I.D.S. discovered that underselling actually boosted its business. After hearing all the disadvantages (low interest, losses on early cash-ins, etc.), cautious investors felt that candid I.D.S. was a company they could trust...