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...Suffield, afterward got a job as a page on Wall Street, where he developed an enthusiasm for finance. At night he studied accounting. At Manhattan's Lybrand Ross Bros. & Montgomery, where he was an accountant for eight years, Geneen became known as a hard-driving young man whose grasp of business, recalls Lybrand Partner Philip Bardes, "went far beyond the balance statement." Geneen next moved through corporate-finance jobs at American Can Co., Bell & Howell and Jones & Laughlin Steel, combing their ledgers, as a colleague of those years later put it, like "a bloodhound on the trail...
...from the Cuban brink, both sides found that a political and military equilibrium had been reestablished. "A geographical status quo that had seemed too abnormal for endurance had endured so long, at last, as to begin to seem normal." Eastern Europe was working itself free of Moscow's grasp; trade between the Europes was eroding the Iron Curtain; ideology on either side was losing its relevance. "As with the conflict between Christendom and Islam centuries earlier," concludes Halle, "the slow churning forces of secular change were transforming the conditions on which the cold war had been based. The cold...
...only the agent of destruction, it is also the precursor of change. With the erasure of the Arab military machine, Israel has indelibly redrawn the political map of the Middle East. Until the Arabs, Russians, and the United Nations grasp this reality, a peacful settlement in the Middle East will remain illusory...
Water Shortage. The colony's British rulers, who throughout the crisis have maintained a stiff upper lip, decided to crack down. Said Acting British Colonial Secretary D. R. Holmes: "The time has come to grasp and retain the initiative in this contest." Hong Kong's superbly disciplined police got permission to unlimber their shotguns. The Communist mobs retreated under volleys of pellets, and police collared 245 hard-core rioters. While British troops in full battle dress stood guard, Hong Kong police stormed into the previously inviolate Communist union headquarters and schools, carted off barrels of riot weapons-steel...
Died. Max Kiss, 84, inventor of Ex-Lax, the world's first and still largest selling (1966 company sales: over $10 million) palatable purgative, a Hungarian immigrant who worked his way through pharmacy college, then proceeded to rescue countless kiddies from the ghastly grasp of castor oil by mixing a tasteless powder called phenolphthalein and chocolate flavoring into Ex-Lax, a name he adapted from a Hungarian parliamentary term (ex lex), meaning an extraordinary suspension of governmental activity; of a heart attack; in Atlantic Beach...