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...sides get together. They reluctantly consented, met in Washington and in Frankfort, Ky., spent most of their time scowling at each other across the table. Finally, they agreed to let power experts see if a solution could be worked out from an engineering standpoint. The engineers, unconcerned with the high-level wrangling, drew up a plan to integrate the public and private power systems...
Montgomery Ward's terrible-tempered Chairman Sewell L. Avery has had plenty of practice severing high-level employees from his payroll, including 32 vice presidents since 1931 (TIME, May 6, 1940 et seq.). Last week it was Sewell A very that was axed-as president of Cadillac-Soo Lumber Co., of Sault Sainte Marie, Mich. Cadillac-Soo Lumber was formed in 1923 out of three small companies, one owned by Avery and his brother. In 1946 Avery became president of the closely held corporation (with annual sales of about...
...level representative back to the peace talks in Geneva. Behind the decision were three strongly held conclusions: 1) French Premier Pierre Mendes-France, who won his office on his promise to end the war in Indo-China. appeared to be a peace-at-any-price man; 2) high-level participation in Geneva might put the U.S. in the position of approving a sellout to the Reds; 3) the French would probably expect the U.S. to fight in Indo-China if the peace efforts failed. Nevertheless, last week the firm decision was dramatically reversed. With a Godspeed from Secretary of State...
Theologians, churchmen and their followers are getting set for a high-level hassle in August, when the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches meets in Evanston, 111 . Main theme of the Assembly: "Christ, the Hope of the World." European Protestant theologians, it is expected, will insist that the Hope is only in the strictly Biblical Second Coming of Christ and the End of the World, a theory that ecumenical Americans tend to leave to the fundamentalists and Adventist sects. Against this view many U.S. theologians will probably maintain that the Hope is in the gradual and practical Christian...
...world at large, Brazil's brilliant Oswaldo Aranha is one of his nation's best-known citizens. In his time he has held a long string of high-level government and international posts: Finance Minister, Foreign Minister, Justice Minister, Ambassador to the U.S., head of the Brazilian delegation to the U.N., president of the U.N. General Assembly in 1947. Last week, while keeping his current job as Finance Minister, Aranha added a new title: Agriculture Minister...