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Temporary Discomfort. Mobutu's hand was being strengthened, too, by the return of hundreds of Belgians, who were coming into Léopoldville last week by the planeful, reopening their musty shops and returning to the advisory jobs with the Congolese government which they had been scheduled to occupy under the original independence agreement. Drilling the Congolese army day after day, a handful of returned Belgian army officers last week turned it out 3,000 strong for a snappy if belated Armistice Day parade. As he brought the troops into the line of march on Boulevard Albert...
...figures at once, read a report while talking on the telephone, carry on simultaneous conferences in his office with three executives involved in entirely different matters. He keeps his hand in everything. Recently he helped sign up Danny Kaye for a three-year TV contract which, to the discomfort of admen, did not have an option to drop Kaye if the first shows were unsuccessful. (Kaye's first show proved a qualified critical success.) Donner also likes to give G.M. cars a rough spin on the proving grounds, insisted that a wooden curb be built so that testers...
Southern Discomfort...
Threatened Control. The human personality is peculiarly vulnerable to the shock of a sudden assault from behind, argue Drs. Leopold and Dillon. This, they theorize, may trigger a "denial mechanism" that prevents the victim from coming to terms emotionally with the meaning and discomfort of his injury. They add: "The fact that the head and neck are the sites of injury adds to this distortion . . . almost as if the ego unconsciously perceives that the control (head) can be severed from the body. It is our thesis that the whiplash injury is psychologically unique in that both its suddenness...
...neutralists' inexperience and unpredictability, the day of the Africans at the U.N. represented something new and as yet only half realized, something strong and, at bottom, hopeful. For long years, the cold war reduced the U.N. to stale factions divided by a kind of international discomfort-index into those who were proCommunist, antiCommunist, and those who hovered in between. But last week the mold was broken as the holdouts, with the new nations added to their ranks, suddenly became the U.N.'s biggest "bloc" and the U.N. took a startled new look at itself. What...