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When the University of Houston started out as a four-year institution in 1934, it had 909 students and one big shack on the San Jacinto High School campus. It also had one unusual asset: Vice President Walter W. Kemmerer. A Ph.D. from Columbia, Kemmerer was a blunt go-getter who thought he knew exactly what sort of university Houston should have...
Then Mossadegh had only one powerful friend left. That was Hussein Makki, the No. 2 man in the regime, Mossadegh's personal representative at Abadan, his top vote-getter in Teheran. Makki liked to say that anyone who opposed his boss ought to be killed. Makki was also ambitious. The most conspicuous object in his living room is a six-foot, gilt-framed portrait of his craggily handsome head...
Most U.S. citizens-a lot of Comanches included-have never heard of Comanche, Okla. (pop. 1,500), a comatose little cotton town on U.S. Highway 81, half an hour's drive from the Texas border. But a fortnight ago, Comanche's undertaker, a chubby, balding go-getter named Glen Boydstun, decided to put the town on the map. His inspiration: a news item announcing that droop-eyed Bill Cook, cold-blooded killer of six, was to be executed (TIME, Dec. 22) in the gas chamber at California's San Quentin prison...
...that it could get Cans, Inc.'s founder and president, Robert Sam Solinsky, 58. When the deal goes through this week (stockholders' approval seems assured), Solinsky will become president of National, replacing C. L. (for Charles Lewis) Thompson, 65, who stays on as chairman. A bustling go-getter, Solinsky should be right at home in his new job. A onetime executive at giant Continental Can, he was assistant vice president of National in 1939, when he quit to form his own company...
Giuseppe Siri, 46, Archbishop of Genoa. A hero of the Resistance movement in Italy, he is a vigorous go-getter, a leader in Church welfare projects and in Italy's Catholic Action movement...