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...Oswald Lord, 1952 co-chairman of the Citizens for Eisenhower. The three new alternates: Wright Francis Morrow, 61, wealthy Houston lawyer who backed the Texas Democrats for Eisenhower; Ade M. Johnson, 58, director of labor and industry in the state of Washington; Roger Williams Straus, 62, a New York industrialist (American Smelting & Refining Co.) and co-founder of the National Conference of Christians and Jews...
...Shippers Kenneth Dawson and William Sexton, Builders Harry Morrison and Stephen Bechtel, Oilman Richard Hanna and Philippine Industrialist Andres Soriano. - Named for Cuffe's alma mater, the University of California. A golden bear on a blue background is also the line's trademark...
...sharply on current handling of the atomic program. The three Truman Administration holdovers (Henry DeWolf Smyth, Thomas E. Murray and Eugene M. Zuckert) warned against a trend toward centralization of authority in Chairman Lewis Strauss. Physicist Smyth declared that on some matters Strauss had closed his fellow commissioners out. Industrialist Murray urged equal "authority, responsibility and access to information" for all five members of the commission...
...Deal days, a forthright British industrialist was introduced to a trustbusting U.S. Government lawyer. Said the Briton: "I've read your books and I know you to be an intelligent man. I know that you know that these antitrust suits of yours don't really change anything. Why do you bring them?" Said the American: "I know they don't change anything. But what you don't understand is that these suits are like medieval miracle plays-designed to educate the people, to tell them how capitalism really works...
...signed up at Yale's engineering school, but gave it up at the end of his sophomore year and married Lucie Bedford, daughter of a New York industrialist-and an enthusiastic sailor. The young couple went to Europe on their honeymoon; Briggs bought a rip-snorting Alfa Romeo, but he was more interested in his six-meter yacht, which he had shipped over from Long Island Sound for racing on the Riviera...