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...less rewarding than making it. People talked about the guilt complex that drove Nuffield; the Establishment, for which he had no use anyhow, scorned him as a parvenu. Angrily, he hired a genealogist, who traced his family to Oxfordshire gentry of 1278, a date few noble lords hark back to. Then W.R.M., as friends called him, retired deeper into the shade and kept six secretaries busy sorting the 2,000 requests for funds he received weekly. Toward the end, Nuffield began to complain that "they like me for my money instead of myself," sometimes told his friends that...
Inevitably, Yevtushenko has come to his role as social critic through a desire to purify the Revolution, and hark back to the principles of Lenin and Marx. This was not always his mission, but there were portents of it in his early youth. The Autobiography as a chronical of Yevtushenko's political development--a side of the man which transcends his poetry--is a valuable work...
...Hark! the air grows pinkly still...
...years has lacked sparkle." While such Ford styling features as the squared roof have set the trend for the rest of the industry, Ford stylists have failed to hold their lead. In Detroit, it is said that both Ford's profit success and its current selling troubles hark back to decisions taken by Robert S. McNamara, Ford's decisive president before he became Defense Secretary. Ford executives are still awed by the memory of McNamara. "He is the only true genius I've ever known," says one. But he adds: "His refusal to consider that the consumer...
...Cuba situation continues to haunt the Kennedy Administration. To Kennedy, personally, it is a bone in the throat. He would like nothing better than to get the whole thing over with, by whatever means. For all his stylish public pronouncements, in private Kennedy is wont to hark back to the Bay of Pigs opportunity and to muse regretfully: "I wonder...