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...superlatives recur with the persistence of a busy signal. An outsize and aggressive utility, the company owns, operates and services 83% of the nation's 84 million telephones-nearly half of all the phones in the world. Its assets of $28 bil lion top those of General Motors, General Electric and U.S. Steel put together, and since 1945 it has raised enough new capital ($26 billion) to buy up the gold reserves of the U.S., Britain and several European countries. With 733,000 workers, the company employs a labor force greater than the population of Boston; its annual wage...
Major Hollywood studios, every bit as frightened by miscegenation as by Communism, approached the finished film with asbestos gloves and judged Potato too hot to handle. British Lion felt differently, snapped up world distribution rights, and a special screening in Paris so impressed foreign critics that they got the festival to accept the picture as an unofficial American entry...
McCloskey warned, however, that the decision may be an expression from the Court of the feeling that "it has already done the lion's share in this country in solving civil rights problems...
...show off more than three or four of her exquisite saris, she was called back to India by her father, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. The ailing Nehru wanted "Indu" (Moon), as he calls her, at his side for an important confrontation this week with Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, "the Lion of Kashmir," who has been demanding self-determination for his home state since his release from jail last month. Both Indira's visit to the U.S. as her country's representative and her abrupt recall as her father's aide define her importance...
...lago's ambitions but only to his stratagems, realizing them too late. Interpretation, however, was only the door to his triumph, which reached its height in the Moor's eruption of jealousy and murderous violence. Said the Financial Times's Alan Dent: "He is like a lion caught in a cruel trap." In the Daily Mail, the often appreciation-proof Bernard Levin said that "Sir Laurence's Othello is larger than life, bloodier than death, more piteous than pity...