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...grew bigger still kept a family attitude toward such outsiders as shareholders and the public. Especially in France and Italy, fear of the tax collector is so obsessive that businessmen avoid even being photographed lest they come to the collector's notice. There is also a belief that dis closure of profits only encourages unions to ask for more money. Officers of European firms make themselves and their plants as inaccessible as possible. France's tiremaking Michelin, perhaps the world's most secretive company, boasts that it has never allowed a journalist or a press photographer into...
...about 250,000 cases reported annually and an estimated 1,250,000 unreported. It is much more highly contagious than syphilis, and easier to catch from a single indiscretion. The infection, even when effectively cured, confers no immunity. Repeated infections are the rule. The same victim can catch the dis ease again a few days after being cured -and often does...
...surprisingly smooth entry; Paul Ford is hilarious as a birdbrained, spaniel-eyed, llama-lipped pony player; and Walter Matthau has his moments as the big hairball who runs the syndicate-among them the deathless moment when, with a casual flick of his manicured fingers, he announces superbly: "Give dis genulman eighteen tousan' dolluhs fum petty cash." The whole cast obviously enjoyed making the picture, and most spectators will find that the pleasure is mutuel...
...Paisner takes two paragraphs and part of the headline to describe Mr. Welch's estimation of General Edwin Walker without mentioning the one point which Mr. Welch made most emphatically: namely, that he was in total dis-agreement with General Walker's actions in Mississippi--whatever they actually were, and, in fact, that he, Mr. Welch, had not approved of anything General Walker had done since his retirement from the Army. The article also neglects to mention the outbursts of spontaneous applause that interrupted Mr. Welch on three or four occasions...
...such invective is a dis appearing art in U.S. politics. This, to connoisseurs, is a pity. But it is being revived with a vengeance in Pennsylvania, where political partisanship runs deep and the stakes are immense...