Word: economists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cables from Cairo. Out of the Government and divorced from his wife, Philby returned to newspapering; seven years ago he went to the Middle East for the Economist and the Observer and married his third wife, Eleanor, whose former husband is Sam Pope Brewer, once the New York Times's Middle East correspondent. Shy and mild-mannered, Philby sometimes drank heavily, last Christmas took a tipsy fall, gashing his head so badly that 24 stitches were needed to close the wound...
After his disappearance, Philby's wife first notified Beirut police, then called them off after receiving the first of several letters and cables from her husband sent from Cairo. Though she maintained that Philby was off on a story, neither the Observer nor the Economist knew anything about an assignment. Finally, the two papers asked the Egyptian and Lebanese authorities to investigate. Officials of both countries reported that there was no record either of Philby's leaving Lebanon or entering Egypt. To quiet the trackers, Eleanor Philby last week displayed another cable, sent from Cairo's Cosmopolitan...
...trained economist, Krag insisted that his Draconian measures are essential; more than any other nation in Europe, Denmark had staked its economic future on joining the Common Market along with Britain. When De Gaulle blackballed Britain's membership, France's President shrewdly promised Denmark immediate admission. Krag's reply was sharp and to the point: "We have no wish to be one of President De Gaulle's pieces in the political chess game with Britain. It is important that we keep our two major customers, Britain and West Germany, inside the same organization. It must...
...many professors are going into business that students frequently confront their teachers when they go asking for a job. With U.S. business hungering for specialized talent, such top scholars as New York University Economist Marcus Nadler earn up to $300 a day as consultants to management. University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Edward H. Litchfield is also chairman of Smith-Corona Marchant and a director of Studebaker and Avco Corp. The hub of this extracurricular activity is Boston, where some 1,000 space-age companies have grown up since World War II, most of them started there to exploit readily available brain...
...Leader. Following the maxim of the late executive editor Samuel M. ("Sol") Levitas, "Don't expect to profit from the truth," Kolatch tries to pay younger contributors $25 to $50 an article, but he can still count on snagging the likes of exiled Spanish Philosopher Salvador de Madariaga, Economist Adolf A. Berle and Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr for nothing...