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...information, dumped 30 million shares on the market in what Shanghai papers dubbed "Operation Giant Bear." Promptly arrested as broker for the deal was Tu Vee-pin, son of Tu Yueh-sheng, president of Shanghai's stock exchange and one of the most powerful men in Shanghai. Big merchant hoarders and price riggers were also pulled...
...they had also admired conservative, 60-year-old "Calculatin' Coke." Coke looked and acted like "Mister Texas." As a youth, he had studied by the light of a campfire, and in the years since, he had been a wagon freighter, merchant, attorney, bank president, rancher. He had been in politics 34 years, was the only man who had been twice named Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. This summer, one of Coke's supporters urged him to get a helicopter, too. Said Coke: "No thanks, I'll keep my campaign down to earth...
...cruiser Königsberg, camouflaged and in hiding 17 miles upstream, was an unrecognizable mass of twisted steel. She was to Germany in World War I what the Bismarck was in World War II: a ghostly, arrogant lone raider that had sunk British warships, transports and merchant vessels and gotten cleanly away after each kill. On the bridge of the British admiral's flagship that day stood the man who had found the Königsberg, a slender, malaria-sallowed big-game hunter named P. J. Pretorius. A Briton raised in the Transvaal, he had spent his life...
...Quebec (where the Liberal Party has been overwhelmed by the Union Nationale), admired elsewhere as a man who combines all that is best in French and English-speaking Canada. He symbolizes the unity which his nomination speech emphasized. For Louis St. Laurent, whose father was a French Canadian merchant and whose mother was first generation Irish, that is not hard. It is often said that when he was young, he never even knew that there were two official languages in Canada: "I just thought that there was one way to talk to my father and another to talk...
Married. Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr., 28, television equipment merchant, who accompanied his father on the 1947 Antarctic expedition; and Emily Bradley Saltonstall, 28, daughter of Massachusetts' senior Senator Leverett Saltonstall; in Dover, Mass...