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...boat commander in World War II, John D. Bulkeley rescued General Douglas MacArthur from Corregidor and won a Congressional Medal of Honor for "extraordinary heroism." A rear admiral now and C.O. of the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Bulkeley, 52, is not the sort to take any guff from Fidel Castro. Last week, when Castro accused the base of using suction pumps to draw off on the sly some 114,000 gallons of Cuban water daily, Bulkeley replied: "Hogwash." Guantanamo was using its own water - the mains from Cuban territory were shut tight. "Castro is calling me a liar...
Brain on Ice. If other diplomats shivered at the prospect of another shoe-thumping tantrum, the Assembly's new president, Pakistan's spade-bearded Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, 69, showed last week that he was not about to take any guff. Told by the Russians that the General Committee, of which he is chairman, was "debasing its dignity," Zafrulla Khan retorted coolly: "The committee is the guardian of its own dignity and well able to take care...
...great distance from youth's naive anger to the flatulence of age; passage of time and belief in one's own guff are all that is needed to turn one into the other. Now, at 70, living in the mountains of California's Big Sur as guru to a small colony of disciples, Miller is quite capable of prating: "It would be a grand thing for any community, large or small, to set aside even five minutes of the day for serious contemplation. If nothing more were to result than the recognition of such a feeling...
...concession to these critics, the board agreed to paste brown tape over or tear out such religious passages as the Sermon on the Mount. But outside of that, it would take no guff about McGuffey. Said Beula: "McGuffey teaches the basic morals of Americanism-honor your parents, honesty, love animals." Said Pfeiffer: "McGuffey builds recognition of the heroic, the elevated, the patriotic strength on which our country is based. If we had McGuffey's in our schools we never would have had the defections we had in Korea...
Although Predecessor Weise had stumbled over the issue of business-office meddling under McCall Corporation President Arthur Langlie, ex-Hearstman Mayes laid down the same law-and made it stick. "I'd rather shoot myself," he says, "than take any guff off the business side." From Good Housekeeping he brought with him a smooth team, including Managing Editor Margaret Cousins. Then Mayes began thinning out McCall's syrupy "togetherness" campaign; the "togetherness" legend no longer appears on McCall's covers. On taking over, he coolly dumped $400,000 worth of stories and articles because they were...