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...supplies from the north. The answer lay in regional organization, and by 1937 Beck had set up an eleven-state Western Teamsters Conference, with himself as chairman. The Teamsters' conference system is Beck's proudest organizational achievement, and he has expanded it to establish feudal baronies in the East, South and Central States...
Dolls for Britain. Christian Dior is a product of three centuries of elegance that run back to the reign of King Louis XIV. To control the restive feudal nobles he subdued, Louis built the huge palace at Versailles, turned it into a vast gilded cage where the aristocracy, cut off from their lands, were reduced to an idle group waiting on the Sun King. In that sumptuous court, elegance became an obsession, and Louis put the obsession to use. He organized Paris' dressmakers and tailors. Two life-sized dolls, dressed in the latest fashions, were shipped monthly across...
...world he once spurned. Duncan Welsh had spent seven years as a newspaperman in Northern cities and lost an eye, a wife and all stomach for his job. He heads back to his father's Tennessee valley farm to root himself in the pieties of nature, kinsmen, and feudal loyalties from which he feels he was torn by anonymous city dwelling. But in the bustling regional ferment to which Duncan returns, his attitudes seem romantic, antisocial and outmoded. The powerful dramatic irony of The Innocent is that its hero seeks serenity and is driven to violence, strives for communion...
...feudal desert King, in his three years on the throne, has shown himself a man who prefers gestures to words, and understandings to contracts. At this time of shifting allegiances in the Middle East, it was a significant gesture that Saudi Arabia's Saud chose to cross the Atlantic at the invitation of "my friend Eisenhower...
...parade of books and magazine articles has offered the new gospel in a dozen different shadings. It is already under attack by critics such as New Dealing Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.. who calls it ''a romantic nostalgia'' for the feudal class system. But as the presidential vote showed this month, conservatism is no longer a narrow economic viewpoint but a political philosophy with vast popular appeal. As Du Pont President Crawford H. Greenewalt pointed out, more segments of the population than ever participate in U.S. business, as employees, stockholders or owners, identifying themselves with...