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...cluster: William H. Draper Jr., Special Representative in Europe and Permanent Representative to NATO and Draper's two deputies. Major General Frederick L. Anderson and Diplomat Livingston T. Merchant...
Last week he slipped into Bremen from Istanbul and in waterfront bars rounded up the 40 Turkish crewmen of the Raman, an aged (1917), U.S.-built tanker of 7,800 tons which had found its way into Mardin's small merchant fleet. Five of the Turks sidled on to a German tugboat lashed alongside the Raman, and kept the tug's nightwatchman busy with a merry prattle in Turkish and gifts of Turkish cigarettes. The rest boarded the Raman and fired up her wheezy engines. Within minutes, the tanker edged away from the dock, dragging the tug with...
Impresario Granz, an indisputably successful music merchant at 34, finds that his richest field of operation is the U.S. From tours last year, his troupes grossed close to $1,000,000. Granz's business philosophy: "If I didn't make $100,000 take-home pay a year, I'd quit." But his current European tour, like last year's, is to "establish 'Jazz at the Philharmonic,' not make money-not right...
...from 50° to 60°, only to find that his claret began ripening far ahead of schedule and that it was all Christ Church men could do to drink it up in time. But otherwise, Mr. Dodgson was a paragon of scrupulous management, and once when a local merchant tried to ingratiate himself by sending a Christmas gift of fruit, he huffily sent it back. "Mr. Dodgson would have thought it hardly necessary " he wrote, "to point out that the curator whose duty it is to provide the best goods he can for the Common Room, cannot possibly accept...
...wanted Bonn to advance $600 million in long-term credits repayable in Egyptian cotton. This would be spent to 1) build a new, $300,000,000 hydroelectric irrigation dam that would nearly double Egypt's cultivatable area and multiply its electrical output; 2) construct a 275,000-ton merchant marine; 3) modernize transport and communications; 4) improve ports. They wanted German equipment and technicians...