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...insurance industry, he has erupted with such force, in the pursuit of new ways to sell insurance and new ways to invest the Pru's billions, that he has turned the Rock of Gibraltar, the company's famed trademark, into something resembling a volcano. By dint of his ideas and exertions, Shanks has not only become one of the most respected spokesmen for U.S. life insurance, but has also made the Pru, whose head offices are in Newark, N.J., the fastest-growing company in a rapidly expanding industry. In the last 30 years the U.S. life insurance industry...
...obscure that Author Rowse dispatches five centuries of them in eight pages. One such was apparently a plain 12th century blacksmith, whose presence in the family tree the present Sir Winston has found "disquieting." The blacksmith's son married a widow a cut above him, and by dint of a few generations of such nimble marriages, the Churchills became gentry, landed but impoverished. The clan's private golden age began in the mid-17th century with Sir Winston Churchill, a loyal colonel in the forces of Charles I, whose budding career was clipped off in 1649 as neatly...
...loves the job. Rowland Hughes came to Washington in 1953, a political innocent. A conscientious Christian Scientist since boyhood, he has never been known to raise his voice or slap a back-despite the swashbuckling appearance of an eyepatch that covers an eyelid injury.* By nature and by dint of 37 years' unbroken service with New York's National City Bank, he is that increasingly valuable U.S. type, the comptroller-or, as an honorary degree from his alma mater (Brown University) put it last June: "One of those rare individuals to whom figures speak in clear tones...
...Britain's newspapers there was much tush-tushing of the public's new optimism (see JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES) and reminders that at Geneva Russia gave up nothing and settled nothing. BBC Commentator Peter Calvocaressi reached a different conclusion: at Geneva, President Eisenhower, by dint of his great prestige, had more freedom to maneuver than any Russian leader and now was using it audaciously. After ten years of speaking at the Russians, the U.S. was now speaking to them...
...pious man, no sophist, of simple origin and sympathies, no snob; he is neutral by dint of his small country's powerlessness, but his political ideology is that of the West. "Burma and America are in the same boat-we fight the same evils," he once declared. And although he was awed and impressed by Red China during his recent visit to Peking, U Nu did not shrink from publicly proclaiming to Mao: "Americans are a very generous and brave people...