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...block to effecting any radical changes in the composition of the clubs is their policy of electing "legacies"--the sons of club alumni. Since much of the clubs' endowment comes from alumni support, it is financially expedient--if nothing else--to elect the legacies. Some years back, a wealthy industrialist who had belonged to the Spee as an undergraduate was enraged when his son was not elected to the club. Storming up to Cambridge in his Rolls-Royce, accompanied by a coterie of servants...
Unceasingly, the rebel radio dinned against the "Yanqui invaders." Businessmen were warned not to open shop: "Each bullet in a rebel gun has the name of a gringo on it, and if not a gringo then an industrialist." At each turn of the negotiations with Special Envoy Martin, Caamaño had new complaints, new demands, new reasons for not negotiating with Imbert's junta. He imperiously demanded his own "corridor" slicing across the U.S. cordon along Avenida San Juan Bosco-to maintain communication with "our forces in the north." Such a passage would nullify the entire U.S. effort...
...PLUS ONE by Gavin Lyall. 249 pages. Scribner. $4.50. Lewis Cane, hero of this adventure yarn, is a former British agent who ran guns for the French Resistance during World War II. After 15 years of private-eying, he finds himself back on the Continent convoying a fugitive millionaire industrialist from Brittany to Liechtenstein. In the course of dodging everyone from police to the hired killers who are after the industrialist, Cane retraces his old Resistance route through the Auvergne, encountering wartime friends and enemies and fighting several pitched battles along the way. British Author Lyall, one of the better...
...coming negotiations, but also added: "We will do everything humanly possible to avoid a strike." On the steel side, Wheeling Steel, the nation's tenth largest producer, agreed to abide by the final terms, but decided to withdraw from the eleven-company bargaining team. Norton Simon, the California industrialist who took over as chairman of Wheeling last year, complained that the steel industry "seems to live in a state of constant crisis. Wheeling can't afford that, and I doubt that the industry can either...
Even more far-reaching is the change within nordestinos themselves. Says Recife Industrialist Renato Bezerra de Melo: "You feel a crazy desire on the part of everybody to learn-even among the illiterate. I can start any kind of course in my factory, and 200 workers will show up." In Rio Grande do Norte, one newly literate farm hand-still thrilled with the simple miracle of being able to read seed packages-explained why: "I have suddenly discovered that...