Word: jugglers
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...Juggler. But even Faure almost failed before he succeeded. His first move was to consult his old friend Mendès-France. Mendès had kept Faure on as Finance Minister after the fall of the Laniel "richman's government," until Mendès could turn his personal attention to reform of the creaking French economy. More than any man, Faure is credited with France's relative prosperity of the past year and a half. But even before Mendès' fall, there had been friction between Mendès and his more conservative Finance Minister...
Cynics call Faure "the juggler," and the Cabinet he presented was a masterpiece. Gone were the bright young men of Mendès' Cabinet. Replacing them were many of the old familiar faces of postwar France, carefully balanced off as Faure doled out the spoils to the bargainers. To soothe the conservatives, the foreign ministry went to Independent Antoine Pinay, a sturdy pro-European pledged to push through the Paris accords. But as his own ministerial lieutenant Faure appointed Gaullist Gaston Palewski, a leader of the opposition to the accords who has organized the effort to block implementation even...
...this some-what Oriental tale of French circus life is a much-besought tamer of tigers (Jan Farrand), who, fearing the future, gazes into the crystal ball of the magician (Louis Jourdan). In two flash-forwards, the ball reveals that on her next birthday -whether she marries a juggler or a millionaire-she must perish in a steamship disaster. Finally, because his own future is the one thing the ball lacks the power to foretell, she marries the magician, who adores...
...publisher and columnist of the Boston Post, Financial Juggler and Amateur Journalist John Fox last year predicted a major depression in the U.S. The prediction proved spectacularly wrong for everyone but the Post. Since his forecast, his circulation has slumped. A fortnight ago he fired 58 Postmen for economy. Morale has been further damaged by the fact that many a staffer had invested in Fox's Keta Gas & Oil Corp. In the last year the stock has dropped from 15 to 3½. Even Fox himself shows signs of depression about his first erratic excursion into journalism. Last week...
Real-Estate Juggler William Zeckendorf is a man who likes to "turn peanuts into bananas." Last year, hoping to turn the trick again, he started work on a $35 million hotel and department-store center on a vacant plot in Denver. He soon ran into trouble. The plans called for a 1,000-car underground garage, but when Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp engineers started taking core samples, they found a 65-ft. formation of blue clay, sand and rock that would have to be excavated at a cost of about $3.000,000. Bill Zeckendorf told his men to keep...