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...function effectively. Reason: "The split between the right and the left." Radio Canton complained that "the class enemy" was sabotaging efforts to control floods caused by the rising Pearl. Mao himself, however, seems to be egging on the feuds, after giving orders only last March for "unified rule." His latest thoughts from Peking carry shrill epithets about the danger of "rightist deviation" and the necessity of "leftist factionalism." In fact, despite the violence, soldiers in Canton have received orders from Peking not to interfere with the fighting unless directly fired upon...
...with Moreau herself that the director achieves his finest work. She has always had trouble juggling erotica and neurotica, and some of her latest films (Viva Maria, Sailor from Gibraltar) have made her seem to be slipping. With Bride she regains her stature as one of France's major actresses. As she approaches each deadly assignment, Moreau exhales a melancholy resignation that gives the scenes the inevitability of a tribal rite, at once primitive and sophisticated...
...Gadfly. Even if Continental doesn't get to fly commercially to the Orient, Six will continue to enjoy his role as gadfly. Six brags that Continental consistently leads the way in aircraft utilization, on-timesmanship and attractive fares. In his latest bit of gadding, he is trying to persuade bigger competitors to cooperate in staggering schedules and uncrowding the skies. "At 9 o'clock in the morning, everybody in the world wants to get on an airplane," complains Six. "Same damned thing at 5 in the afternoon. Sometimes they have 18 planes or more in places like Kennedy...
...free rein. They have divided Jewel into eleven individual "companies," each of them virtual fiefdoms whose executives receive from headquarters little more than general guidelines. "It's almost like a businessman going to his banker," says one company official. As if to emphasize their autonomy, Jewel's latest annual report contains photographs of 55 such middle-range executives-but none of either Chairman Clements or President Perkins...
...introducing a man-made fiber named nylon. Since then, Du Pont has continued to mount an impressive list of synthetic firsts in textile fibers, including Orlon, Dacron and Teflon. Last week at a press preview in Manhattan's First National City Bank Building, the chemical Goliath unveiled its latest unnatural discovery: Qiana. (Pronounced...