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...worth a compromise with extremism." Again: "You cannot afford to have people in control of your government who believe that a little higher rate of unemployment is good for you." He admonished New York Democrats to "improvise," and for invidious inspiration he observed: "If the British after Dun kirk hadn't improvised, Hitler would have had England. If the Democrats after Chicago don't improvise, Nixon will have Washington." Improvising a bit himself in finding new darts to aim at the Republican nominee, Humphrey told an audience in Fort Worth that U.S. Marines had to be sent...
...original and compelling pop al bums of the year. Country Singer Cash, a top concert attraction at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall as well as Nashville's Grand Ole Opry is a big favorite in the penitentiary circuit. "We bring the prisoners a ray of sunshine in their dun geon," he says, "and they're not ashamed to respond." Furthermore, "they feel I'm one of their own." That is because Cash, lean and tough look ing at 36, sings with granite conviction and mordant wit about sadness, pain, loneliness and hard luck. Though...
Angry Hornets. Beulah's freshest fury was expended on the dun-colored delta of the Rio Grande and the tiny ports that dot the Gulf Coast. Port Isabel (pop. 4,000), a shrimp-fishing village, was smashed by 150 m.p.h. winds; only a lighthouse and a newly built brick bank were left undamaged, along with Captain G. D. Kennedy, who with his wife and his handmade 60-ft. shrimp boat rode out the storm with diesel engines and good seamanship...
Such corporate ability is bound to attract attention outside academe. Last week Perkins submitted his resignation to Delaware's board of trustees, announced that in September he will become president of Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., where he will serve under Chairman and Chief Executive J. Wilson Newman...
Perkins will find Dun & Bradstreet as complicated as a multiversity. The mainstay of the 126-year-old firm is still its credit-reporting service, whose 80,000 subscribers can get a rating on any of 3,000,000 firms. Dun & Bradstreet also publishes magazines, including Dun's Review, turns out Moody investors' manuals, is involved in plant-location studies through its recent acquisition of the Fantus Co. The Reuben H. Donnelley Corp., another subsidiary, puts out such bibles as telephone books and the Official Airline Guide. The parent company also operates a mutual fund, Moody's Fund...