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...various times, CBS has looked over Curtis Publishing Co., held inconclusive talks with the Boston textbook house, Allyn and Bacon. With Holt, the indirect approach proved more successful. Holt President Alfred C. Edwards was caught by surprise last September when CBS paid some $19 million for the stock held by his biggest (10.8%) shareholders, Texas Entrepreneurs Clint and John Murchison. Upset at the time, Edwards since has warmed to the idea of CBS's rich (1966 sales: $815 million) corporate shelter...
...Communist attack occurred clearly across an established border line, and was carried out by an organized army; besides, South Korea's defense was a U.N. action. In contrast, they consider the Viet Nam conflict a civil war. This overlooks the fact that there is such a thing as indirect aggression, and every realistic observer knows that outside Communist help for the Viet Cong is a decisive factor...
General Castelo Branco is the leader of this military regime which came to power after overthrowing leftist President Joao Gotildart, Castelo Branco will be replaced this March by General da Costa Silva who was elected in an indirect vote by the Brazilian Congress...
...time being the new constitution provides that we can only have a president by indirect elections--that is, elected by Congress--which is a thing that disturbs the whole scene in Brazil. I don't think the people will willingly wait a long time before they try to change that...
...American way of political life. In the midst of a war that is continually costing the U.S. more in both money and lives, a major U.S. studio and a major U.S. director, Robert (The Sound of Music) Wise, have invested some $12 million in an angry if indirect attack on U.S. policy in Viet Nam. What's more, they will probably get their money back, even though this film version of Richard McKenna's 1962 bestseller turns out to be just a Panavision placard crammed with peacenik cliches. And besides, it forces the customers to spend 191 minutes...