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...erect, well-knit six-footer, Trippe, at 49, still packs the same weight (1961bs.) that he carried in college. He runs his global empire from a barren, middling-sized headquarters on the 58th floor of Manhattan's Chrysler Building. There, he swivels between a clean work table, where he does his conferring, and a rolltop desk (always locked when he is away), where he does his thinking, figuring and secret dreaming. Close at hand are two small globes. (The big three-foot one on which he used to plan his routes and spot his far-flung bases, measuring...
...successful. When Writer Bolton switches from memory to action, and from past to present, her pen seems to catch a bit of fuzz, her prose blurs a little, and the feelings of the son, his ex-wife and her new husband fog up. And her last-minute attempt to knit the son's tragedy to the world situation is a piece of synthetic, Freudian chop-logic as far-fetched as saying that a tug on an umbilical cord will ultimately release an atom bomb...
Dean Bender has stated that the Administration hesitates to give credit for foreign study because there are no safeguards to insure that a man will take his work seriously. Many European universities have a loosely-knit system under which the student needs only to take a cursory examination at the end of the school year to receive full credit for courses he has hardly bothered to attend. The College, says the Dean, cannot take the chance that one of the four years spent in preparation for the degree will be wasted...
...McKay did not envision the early development of an Atlantic Community in terms of a "strong, close-knit organization which always has its goals clearly in mind." Such a community can only be achieved gradually, he maintained, through the economic and political strengthening of Europe...
...Union is now a closely knit organization with tidy offices above the Claus Golotte camera shop on Massachusetts ave. To its officers, employees bring grievances of all sorts which are carefully discussed and reviewed by Mulverhill and sectional chiefs...