Word: makers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colonel Remon was police chief and Panama's strong man and President-maker. Eager for a little order in his country's mercurial politics, but reluctant to become President, he patiently tried four men in the office. Finally he decided to run himself, campaigned hard last year, and won easily in a fair vote...
Jewels & Squeaks. For the past four years, Ascari has been driving for Motor-maker Enzo Ferrari, whose jewel-like ($10,000 and up) speedsters have given him his greatest triumphs and narrowest squeaks. Until last week's Monza, Ascari's closest brush with death was 1949's Netherlands Grand Prix. Ascari was leading by three laps. "I was doing 120 m.p.h. on the straightaway," he recalls, "when all of a sudden the left rear wheel flew off and rolled into a meadow." Somehow, Ascari managed to keep his Ferrari balanced on three wheels, gradually let it slow...
...Southampton one day last week sailed a cargo of six knocked-down British tractors, bound for India. Their builder, David Brown, 50, Britain's third biggest maker of tractors (after Harry Ferguson and Ford), had stolen a march on competitors. Instead of trying to hurdle India's import barriers on foreign goods, he had signed a deal with Bombay's locally owned Mahindra-Mahindra plant to assemble and sell his machines. After the tractors, Brown dispatched a team of instructor technicians to set up a tractor school in India. Before long, he hopes to have Mahindra-Mahindra...
...biggest growth has come during the 20 years since Yorkshire-born David Brown, grandson of the founder, succeeded his father in the family business. Fresh from an American tour and full of Yankee ideas of expansion, Brown wanted to expand the company, then Britain's biggest gear maker, into other products...
Headed in the opposite direction for her year of study is Elisabeth Hanna, who left her TIME desk with a Fulbright scholarship to work in Italy at the University of Perugia and the University of Florence. Scholar Hanna, a distant relative of President-Maker Mark Hanna of Ohio, is a young lady working her way up in the newsreporting business. She came to TIME a fluent linguist in German, French and Italian, with a scholastic background of study at Vassar, Barnard and the University of Berlin. This year she learned how TIME handles its network of foreign correspondents...