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...Manningham-Buller, Attorney-General, widely nicknamed "Reggie Bullying-Manner." - Sir David Eccles. 57, Education Minister, a publicity-conscious politician who tried to cope with Britain's teacher shortage. Successor: Sir Edward Boyle, 38, who at 27 was Britain's youngest M.P. and is touted as a political comer. > Dr. Charles Hill, 58. Minister of Housing. Successor: Sir Keith Joseph, a member of Lloyd's and Minister of State at the Board of Trade. He is one of the few Tory Jews in Parliament...
Philadelphian Kirk is a late but capable comer to the diplomatic service. Lured to the sea by boyhood canoeing on the Delaware River, he graduated from Annapolis in 1909, became a gunnery expert. By World War II, he had his rear admiral's flag, led invasion task forces at Sicily and Normandy, instituted the custom of broadcasting battle action to seamen below decks. His last professional contact with China was in 1911-14 as a gunboat ensign on the Asiatic Station during the Sun Yat-sen revolution. His last prolonged contact with the Kennedys was in 1939-1940, when...
...CRIMSON second annual Ski Guide to New England is now available free of charge at 14 Plympton St. The Guide contains tips on places to go, how to get there, what to take and what to wear--for the veteran or the new comer...
A.R.A.'s rocketlike rise makes it a serious challenge to the once unchallenged monarch of the vending industry, Chicago's Automatic Canteen Co. Another fast comer is Interstate Vending Co. of Chicago, which has bought 25 companies in the past year and recently acquired New York's Brass Rail restaurant and catering chain. (A pioneer in preparing restaurant-quality dinners for vending, Brass Rail supplies machine-served meals to General Electric employees at G.E.'s New York home office.) Interstate's President Ronald Wolff, 31, has made himself one of vending's new millionaires...
...made use of only one close friend: Representative Eddie Boland, the Congressman from O'Brien's own district. (It was Boland who was the earliest to spot Jack Kennedy's presidential potential. In 1946 he told O'Brien: "Kennedy's a real comer. He can go all the way.") On the Hill, Boland's office has become an anteroom to O'Brien's headquarters, and other Congressmen have come to regard the Springfield Democrat as the resident of Capitol Hill who has the most direct line to O'Brien...