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...This cold front is a pretty slow ther Bureau. It will hang over the mover," said the man from the Wea-Hub like a dark gray cloud all through...
Died. John Denby Allen, 76, longtime (1942-56) president and chairman of Chicago's Brink's Inc., biggest U.S. money mover ($300 billion a year), who directed repayment of the $1,200,000 in cash lost to customers in the 1950 Boston robbery, then ordered the intensive security overhaul that has precluded any sequel to that heist and, true to the new Brinkmanship, kept three pistols hidden in his office to the day of his retirement; following a heart attack; in Chicago...
...recently as five years ago, France seemed destined to become a second-class power. Yet last week the impossible had apparently come true, and France was once more a mover and shaker in world affairs. Backed by a surging economy, a rising birth rate and an unparalleled air of self-confidence, France has become the first power of Western Europe. It dominates the thriving six-nation Common Market and easily makes its whim become law, as was demonstrated last year when, arbitrarily and against the wishes of its co-partners, it refused Britain admission to the Common Market...
...speculative creation, though modeled on historical fact. After a compelling evening with this Luther, incandescently acted by Albert Finney, one knows that one has seen a hugely tormented Promethean rebel. It is rather less certain that one has been in the presence of a towering Christian and the prime mover and shaper of the Reformation...
...dismal laboratories from mud-floored hovels into bright, superbly equipped plants. These became the models for modern labs elsewhere and the source of a grand succession of inventions-mediicnes to fight sleeping sickness and tuberculosis -that made Germany the pharmacy of the world. Duisberg was also a prime mover in organizing the I. G. Farben chemical cartel, which played a key role in Hitler...