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...performer re-creating the Old West, but the boss of a huge and exciting corporation that is dedicated to a relentless pursuit of the future. He is Charles Bates Thornton, 50, the chairman of California-based Litton Industries-and he was busy on horseback at the most important facet of his job: thinking. When "Tex" (he came from a small Texas town) Thornton has a problem to mull over, he finds that he does his best thinking on a solitary 30-or 40-mile ride through the mountains, where he can "look at the world down there, and the world...
Although her first appearances are unrewarding, Etain O'Malley finds substance in the shadows of the Wilde and Williams parodies. In the latter she reveals a new facet of her talents. The abuse she skillfully suffers at the hands of her husband would qualify her for a position as an apache dancer. As the interlocutor between scenes, Mark Bramhall takes impish delight in the reading of the well-written stage directions...
...Clemens and August Brenninkmeyer, German farmer's sons who opened a fabrics shop in the Dutch town of Sneek and whose descendants later pioneered in ready-to-wear. By tradition, young Brenninkmeyer men are sent around to the company's foreign stores to learn every facet of the operation. While there are no outside directors, the story in Amsterdam is that the Roman Catholic Brenninkmeyers always leave one chair open at management meetings "for our dear Lord...
Bishop Fred Corson is a graduate (1917) of this college. The editors of our student newspaper here read his comments concerning Rockefeller with great dismay. Constant confusion of men's personal lives with their political lives is indeed a sorry facet of our system...
...special problems of the Middle East are hardly mentioned in the Review. To be sure, A. J. Meyer's discussion of competition between Israel and Egypt in extending technical and economic aid to sub-Saharan Africa touches on the Arab-Israeli conflict, but it covers only a minor facet. The Review ignores Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the oil sheikdoms, and the Arab states of western North Africa, which are culturally, religiously, and politically--if not geographically--a part of the Middle East. No magazine could cover all of these countries in a single issue; the Review ignores...