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...chances are that whenever University-oriented city planners, the Cambridge Advisory Council, or the Cambridge Historical Council rise up against any urban redevelopment, a genial but shrewd character will be at the bottom of it all. Synonymous with the idea of buildings on stilts, with plans for a $100 million project to fill in the Charles River Basin, and with what his enemies might term radical change in general is the name of John Briston Sullivan...
...casualty in the U.S. policy switch on Nasser's Aswan Dam project), is expected to do better under the new Administration. And State's top information job, now held by Assistant Secretary Andrew Berding, is in for fierce competition. Favorite candidate among State people is genial Roger Tubby, 50, who was a press officer there from 1945-49, later became Harry Truman's press secretary, and worked hard for Kennedy in the campaign...
Early last November when Detroit's evening News bought out the Hearst chain's ailing Detroit Times (TIME, Nov. 21), one of the most valuable properties that changed hands was genial, chubby-faced Dr. Joseph G. Molner, 53. Though his column appears in 217 U.S. dailies, Dr. Molner's question-and-answer "To Your Good Health" is biggest in his home town, where it is a favorite court of appeal for health bugs. Last week, to the rage of the News and the embarrassment of Dr. Molner, his medical advice was also enhancing the circulation...
...Archbishop José Humberto Quintero, 58, of Caracas, Venezuela, was born of humble parents in the Andean village of Mucuchies, near Mérida, won scholarships to continue his education in Rome and eventually became dean of Mérida University's law school. A genial, round-faced scholar and amateur portrait painter. Quintero will be the first cardinal in Venezuela's history...
...been trying to play the neutralist game, slipped ever closer to the precipice edge. To the south, an anti-Communist army faction led by General Phoumi Nosavan has been in obdurate though mostly nonviolent revolt against Prince Souvanna since last September. On a good will tour a fortnight ago. genial Prince Souvanna awakened one morning in the small northern village of Moung Sai, his head still dizzy from ceremonial quaffing of a strong rice spirit called choum, to learn that the royal capital, Luangprabang. had gone over to General Phoumi. Last week he learned that his army commander in chief...