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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHARLES REVSON, president of Revlon, Inc., stepped briefly into the public eye as he appeared before the congressional subcommittee investigating the rigged TV shows, which included two that he sponsored. While Charlie Revson is little known to TV viewers, he is recognized in his own circle as a man who makes Madison Avenue tremble and his competitors writhe with fury. See BUSINESS, The Unflabbergasted Genius...
...suave and courtly Georgian, "Red" Dowling, 54, is known around the world for his aplomb and tact. He has a wide firsthand knowledge of Europe (he had been slated for the post of Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until Murphy announced his resignation) and is thoroughly familiar with the problems of West Germany in particular, having served in Bonn for three years (1953-56), first as Deputy High Commissioner, later as Minister of the U.S. embassy. German-fluent Ambassador Dowling is equally at home with aging chiefs of state. In his most recent post, as Ambassador to Korea...
...hangs astride the intersection of two heavily traveled highways: State 38 to Savannah and a combined U.S. 25 and U.S. 301, which funnels thousands of vacationers from the East and Midwest toward Florida. For traffic on U.S. 25-301 (which makes a 90° turn), the light has been known to flick from red to green and hold for only 16 seconds-just long enough to let three left-turning cars through, and get the piled-up traffic rolling. Then its timer snaps through a quick-as-the-eye amber warning to a red stop...
...Paris, where cynical politicians have heard everything, even the most unsurprisable wore the slightly dazed air of men who have just heard a mallard endorse a shotgun. After years of unwavering hostility to Charles de Gaulle, French Communists abruptly abandoned their denunciations of his Algerian policy and made it known that they were eager to shake his hand...
...would not be used against them as evidence; the police would make every effort to protect them from predictable Triad reprisals; most important of all, they would not be subject to the sweeping new powers that Lee's government was giving the police, which in effect deprive all known criminals of habeas corpus. Confessions from suspicious crooks were few at first, but under constant radio and press warnings to "give up now or face annihilation," more than 800 of Singapore's hoodlums and small fry finally turned themselves in, 200 on the last day of the amnesty last...