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...Chinatown to an estimated $100 million in movie earnings, Schenck possessed a way with people that won him the trust of all filmdom, enabled him to function as Hollywood's peacemaker (he settled the long-standing feud between Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin) and to launch a clutch of stars ranging from Norma Talmadge (his wife from 1917 to 1934) to Marilyn Monroe...
...Before I came to Washington," Secretary McNamara said last month to Senator Thurmond and a jeering clutch of old ladies wearing "pro-blue" badges, "I was paid $400,000 a year to take responsibility for the second biggest business enterprise in the world. I learned there, and I believe today, that it is not sound management practice to pin the blame on subordinates for responsibilities which are mine...
...minds of many customers there may arise a certain doubt that playing pool is as lofty a theme as Director Rossen seems to think, but he doggedly insists on the point, and in the middle of the picture he carries it with a clutch of phrases ("I got oil in my arm") that breathe the smoky poetry of poolrooms and ring true as a struck spittoon...
...rebel Algerian F.L.N. last week abruptly turned left. After three years under the relatively benign leadership of Premier Ferhat Abbas, 61, an ex-druggist who speaks better French than Arabic and has a middle-class habit of falling asleep after a good dinner, control shifted to a clutch of hard-eyed terrorists who had survived street battles and mountain skir mishes in the seven-year war against the French...
...bill. Manufactured by National Rejectors Inc., the machine reads the $5 bill electronically, and if it approves of it, tucks it away and dispenses a small pasteboard box containing the foreign currency required, with the change in U.S. coins (less a 30? charge). CJ Outboard engine with an automatic clutch, manufactured by Johnson Motors, which enables boatmen to shift through reverse, neutral and forward speeds without first having to operate a manual clutch. The first such feature to be added to outboards, the automatic transmission uses electromagnets to move the clutch assemblies. Prices: from $755 for a 40-h.p. engine...