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...which Tula Ellice Finklea, Doris Kappelhoff, Archie Leach, Frederick Austerlitz, Norma Jeane Baker, Dino Crecetti and Roy Fitzgerald became household names, though not their own (see SHOW BUSINESS...
...pickle-changed his name to Fredric March. Frederick Austerlitz was just too hobnailed a surname to weight the light soles of Fred Astaire. Gary Grant, of course, would have been unstoppable with any name from Pinky Fauntleroy to Adolf Hitler-even, for that matter, with his own name: Archie Leach...
...that he finds displeasing in modern society and political life, the ultra sees evidence of Communist plots and subversion. With a dogmatic either-or attitude, he broaches no disagreement. "You're either for us or against us," says James E. Gibson, senior vice president of California's Leach Corp., which makes electronic components. "There's no room in the middle any more." And the ultra, dissatisfied with the current political order, usually works outside normal political channels and, indeed, frequently accuses both of the two major U.S. political parties of being prone to Communist influence...
...overall purpose of the proposal, however, is "essential" to the national security, Leach emphasized. Top military advisors must be disassociated from "parochial interests" if they are to have a broad view of the country's problems, he pointed...
According to Leach, one of the most constructive features of the plan is that part allowing free transferance of personnel among the services. At the present, technicians must work out the "best ICBM" or the "best war-head" for their own branch in order to keep their jobs. This leads to wasteful competition...