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...presumably only as Pravda editor, and there to have sold President Nasser on the big buildup of Soviet arms in Egypt. Though lionlike in aspect, Shepilov was a mild man and an appropriate mouthpiece for the soft words of coexistence with which the Soviet leaders were then screening their far-flung operations. The reason for the great play for Tito only became obvious later: they wanted to use him to help dispel the trouble that, sooner than they expected, exploded in Hungary and Poland...
Humphrey is in for a lively second term. As a businessman (ex-President of Cleveland's far-flung M. A. Hanna Co.), he stands for a minimum of government control and for taxes low enough to encourage broad investment opportunities and individual initiative. By now he has come to recognize the high stakes and high cost involved in cold war, is willing to postpone tax cuts and settle for a balanced (if bigger) national budget and a fiscal policy that keeps a tight checkrein on inflation. Nonetheless it is plain that Humphrey is not happy with the course...
...composer, painter, a movie star whose haircut and clothes are ardently aped by teen-agers from Tokyo to Nagasaki, and the most sensationally successful author in the nation, with four bestselling novels to his credit. Beyond all this, Ishihara is the idol and godhead of a flamboyant and far-flung cult whose youthful excesses have caused Japan's oldsters to shake their heads in horror and despair. This is the cult of Taiyozoku, the "Sun Tribers," the flaming youth of modern Japan...
When I consider the 80 million Moslems in Indonesia and the 50 million in China, and the millions in Malaya, Siam and Burma, and the close to 100 million in the Middle East, and the 40 million inside the Soviet Union, and the other millions in far-flung parts of the world−when I consider these hundreds of millions united by a single creed, I emerge with a sense of the tremendous possibilities which we may realize through the cooperation of all these Moslems, a cooperation not going beyond the bounds of their natural loyalty to their own countries...
Million-Dollar Answers. The Creole is more than a princely pleasure barge; it is also the flagship from which Niarchos directs the far-flung fleet of 48 merchantmen that carry his initial, a sprawling N, on their smokestacks. Each morning last week, while his guests still lay abed, Niarchos settled himself at a desk in his fawn-carpeted stateroom. With an unlighted Papastratos No. 1 cigarette between his lips, he pored over...