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Murphy has been on hand wherever and whenever the flames of world controversy burned hottest: in Munich during Hitler's brawling beer-hall days, in North Africa patiently maneuvering to deliver Vichy France's colonies to the World War II Allies, in Berlin during the airlift, in Trieste and at Panmunjom, in London during the Suez crisis. To Tunisians he is "Monsieur Bans Offices," to austere Britons he is "Breezy Bob," and to Pravda he is "Warmonger Murphy." To friends and enemies alike, he is perhaps the world's fastest-moving, most highly skilled diplomatic fireman...
Last week they were still humming, but the far-off foreign drone had risen to a resounding chorus. By the polls, Nel Blu is the hottest song property on the pop music circuit anywhere...
Rexall's progress spelled a personal comeback for Justin Dart, ex-wonder boy. When he took over Rexall in 1943 at 36, Dart became the hottest shot in the conservative drug business-until Rexall earnings dipped sharply in 1947. Dart owned up frankly to the board: "I know I look bad now. But before I look better, I'm going to look worse." Sure enough, things got worse...
...electric violin that enables the player with a puny tone to boost it merely by twisting a couple of knobs on the belly. Says a salesman: "It might lay an egg; then again, it might be the hottest thing in the country." Price: about...
Amid the coups and near coups, the troop landings and the summit thunderclaps that have rocked the Middle East, Israel has kept extremely quiet. Yet the potentially hottest spot in the whole area remains Israel's eastern frontier. If the British should pull out of Jordan, and Hussein's kingdom should fall into the hands of Nasserites, war could break out between Arabs and Jews over Jordan. Israel long ago said it would not "look indifferently at the dismemberment of Jordan." In such a situation, Israel might strike for the west bank of the Jordan River to give...