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...Circus Manager. To help him in the task of reconstruction, Alfried Krupp picked a deputy in startling contrast to himself and his tradition. "When I came back from prison," says he, "we had become a machinery and trading company, deprived of our traditional steelmaking role. We needed new blood, a new approach, a fresh policy. I decided we should start looking for a man who did not know steel." Krupp found his man in 40-year-old Berthold Beitz, the breezy general director of the Iduna-Germania Insurance Co., who had boosted his company from 16th to third place...
...days before they were due to cast primary ballots in a special election to pick Joe McCarthy's Senate successor, Wisconsin voters got some eleventh-hour advice from the influential (circ. 354,879) Milwaukee Journal. The Journal front-paged a cartoon of a circus tent and six sideshows, dubbed them former Governor Walter J. (for Jodok) Kohler Jr. and his six G.O.P. opponents. Warned the caption: "Don't be taken in by the sideshows." The voters weren't. In an election where total returns were slimmed to 460,000 (out of 2,200,000 eligibles) by summer...
BATH'S CIRCUS AND ROYAL CRESCENT, finished within six years of the Place de la Concorde, was one of Britain's supreme building triumphs. It resulted from the combined efforts of an unknown road builder, architect and artist named John Wood and his son John Wood Jr., who had taken over the cramped, run-down town of Bath, site of an ancient Roman spa, and rebuilt it into a showpiece of Georgian architecture and a prime example of unified English town planning. The younger Wood's supreme gambit was to take one elliptical segment of the oval...
Most of the unnatural chicks live to the hatching point, and some of the simpler ones may live longer. But Dr. Wolff is not interested in raising circus attractions. The purpose of experimental teratology, he says, is to learn why and how monsters develop so that the processes can be reversed. Explains Dr.Wolff: "A train passes too quickly for us to find out anything about it while it is moving. To derail the train is a violent method, but this gives us a chance to study parts of the mechanism." He hopes that his tortured eggs will teach physicians...
Fatherland Week, as the holiday is called, was the kind of glittering circus that could be mounted by no Latin American nation except oil-rich Venezuela. Pérez Jiménez and his guest got things started by snapping to attention in Caracas' Plaza Bolívar while a comely maiden presented a "sacred torch," run into town by relays of students from the battle shrine at Carabobo, 120 miles away. Then, before a crowd of 100,000, the two strongmen dedicated the Avenue of Heroes, a gaudy, neo-Grecian plaza fronting the mammoth Armed Forces Club...