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...real mover behind it all, declared Thao, was General Tran Thien Khiem, South Viet Nam's ambassador in Washington. But the timing of the revolt evidently came as a surprise to the ambassador, who was sound asleep in his Maryland home at the time. Hurriedly, Khiem cabled Thao pledging "total support." He should have stayed...
...plastic bricks up the staircases and setbacks of the Tower of Babel on the set south of Rome. "Here," says the associate producer, "you have the first love story, the first sin, the first murder, the first boat and the first skyscraper." "All these fantastic stories," marvels the prime mover of all, Italian Producer Dino de Laurentiis, "it would be incredible if it weren't the Bible...
Armed with that formidable self-education, Black emerged in his second term as one of the Senate's most ardent Roosevelt supporters, a relentless, high-handed (and hardly judicious) investigator of public-utility lobbies, a prime mover of TVA, and a thundering critic of "judicial usurpation" by a Supreme Court that was overruling one piece of New Deal legislation after another. When F.D.R. failed in his plan to pack the Court with pro-New Dealers in 1937, he did the next best thing: he named Senator Black to fill the vacancy left by retiring Justice Willis Van Devanter...
Surprise in Store. Many Canadian investors placed considerable trust in the prime mover of Windfall: Viola MacMillan, 61, a shrewd, hard-driving prospector since 1923 and the dark-haired darling of Canada's mining men. Miners had elected Viola president of the Prospectors and Developers Association 21 times, and serenaded her each time with a lively rendition of Let Me Call You Sweetheart. She and her husband George, the president of Windfall, were called "the mining Mac-Millans." They also kept stockholders in the dark. To one questioner, Viola replied cryptically: "A lot of people are going...
...Common Market, is also pressing for the "Marjolin Plan" that would unite nearly all the Six's fiscal and monetary policies in a super federal-reserve system. Argentina's Raúl Prebisch, who initiated and negotiated the Latin American Free Trade Association, was also the prime mover of the recent U.N. Conference on Trade and Development, is favored to become head of the ambitious global trade organization that grew out of that meeting. True, neither LAFTA nor the U.N. conference has accomplished much, but they are first steps toward greater world trade...