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...eliminated all his seniors, Doi got around U.S. directives to split up the zaibatsu by organizing the White Water Society, a "social club" consisting of the heads of all former Sumitomo enterprises. Today, though the Sumitomo family is no longer in control, the Sumitomo companies again constitute a closely knit combine of more than 115 firms with 1961 sales of $884 million in everything from insurance to aluminum...
...Thus, as he once put it, France could at least "tear an arm" off an aggressor. He announced also that NATO will not get back the two NATO-committed French divisions that were diverted to Algeria. Explained De Gaulle: "It is absolutely necessary to have our army more closely knit into the nation." ADENAUER, though anxious at almost any price to preserve Franco-German amity, is mistrustful of De Gaulle's nuclear ambitions and resents his carping...
...hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage." Occasionally, the attempt to link music and words-as in a sudden intrusion of primitive drumbeats for the phrase "To those peoples in the huts and villages"-upsets the continuity. But for the most part, it is tightly knit and moving. Says Composer Danburg: "It is strictly nonpartisan...
...supporters. Six days before the uprising, he said, a member of the staff of recently resigned Premier Michel Debré told him: "Debré thinks exactly as you think and as I think, but he dare not say so." Jouhaud astonishingly described the S.A.O.. not as a close-knit terror group, but as a vast, popular movement with unspecified "social aims." comprising all the Europeans of Algeria and "many more Moslems than one thinks." He conceded there had been excesses, particularly in the indiscriminate slaughter of Moslems, but blamed them on "difficulties" in the chain of command. Maintaining...
...Vivien Kellems, 65, Connecticut's would-be Joan of Arc whose "voices" seem to ring like Ayn Rand, sold out her 34-year-old cable-grip works in Stonington. But her vendetta against the Internal Revenue Service would go on. Renouncing a 1961 pledge to stick to her "knitting by the fireside" (among other reasons: she can't knit). Liberty Belle Kellems menacingly warned the bureaucratic foe: "I'm just getting a second breath...