Word: cecil
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TIME'S Publisher Bernhard Auer was in India last week. It was something of an old home week, for Auer as an Army counterintelligence officer lived for two years during World War II in Delhi's Cecil Hotel, which he was saddened to learn has now been turned into a boys' school. Back on familiar ground, he looked up old friends, poked nostalgically about in Delhi's teeming streets and alleys, took his wife to Agra to see that uxorious monument, the Taj Mahal. Publisher Auer is on a round-the-world trip...
...this country, however strong and sincere are his convictions and however honorable he may be, has the right to arrogate to himself to decide which laws are bad laws." Thus, to cries of "Shame" in London's Old Bailey last week, British Judge Sir Cecil Havers sentenced six youthful nuclear disarmers to prison. Their offense: an abortive attempt last December to organize a huge sitdown demonstration on the runways of the U.S. Strategic Air Command's nuclear strike base at Wethersfield, Essex...
Vodka & Violins. In a day and a night in Paris, Salinger had two meetings with Kharlamov (whom he soon began calling Mike)-in the Paris home of Cecil Lyon, minister of information in the U.S. Paris embassy, and in the grey-walled Soviet embassy on Rue de Grenelle. While Salinger puffed on cigars, the pair were served vodka and caviar, discussed press relationships and other communication channels between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Inevitably, the meetings gave rise to rumors that Salinger was negotiating about a Kennedy visit to Russia, but Salinger denied it "on a stack of Bibles...
...heavy industry, De Laurentiis has been pampered by the government with tax concessions and subsidies. His new studios have four immense sound stages, three of which can be combined, by sliding steel doors, into a giant indoor county, complete with pocket oceans for underwater scenes. A sort of Cecil B. DeMilione, he recently completed Barabbas with a cast of 8,000, many of whom are lions. And now he is preparing for the motion picture that will make Ben-Hur seem like a minor travelogue, the ultimate, untoppable, millennial religious epic -a $30 million, twelve-hour adaptation of The Bible...
...survived com petitive situations before," says one big steel executive. "Although this is a tough predicament, we can do it again by pro viding better quality, better service, bet ter technology." ∙OIL. "It is not wage costs between the U.S. and Europe that should be com pared," says Cecil Morgan, Standard Oil of New Jersey's chief of government rela tions, "but unit costs of production; and if you do that you'll see that there isn't much difference." ∙PULP & PAPER. "We want freer trade with Europe, not tariff protection at home," says Crown...