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...Afri ca. Conservative Western financiers, un accustomed to the rough and tumble of Levantine business, are sometimes in clined to look askance at this headlong expansion and at the fact that Bedas, de spite the growing complexity of Intra's operations, continues to run it as a one-man show. But last week, as he hopped from Rome to Paris to London inspecting his empire, cocky Yusuf Bedas pooh-poohed any suggestion of overextension...
...counts, George gets high marks. Emlyn Williams' eminence is unquestioned; as a playwright, his hits have included The Corn Is Green and Night Must Fall, as an actor, he has scored international hits with his one-man performances of Charles Dickens and Dylan Thomas (and he will soon take over from Paul Scofield the Broadway role of Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons). This "early autobiography," as he ambivalently calls it, carries him no farther than age 21. But that handful of years makes a moving story-the precarious flowering of a brilliant talent...
...this good news has been pushed off the front page by the saga of Harry Weinberg, new president of the Fifth Avenue Coach Lines, and his one-man war against traffic sanity in New York. Weinberg, who took over the line several months ago from a management that confessed to its own incompetence, has proved an impossible man to deal with. His intransigence has resulted in the present strike of the Transit Workers against his line, and a new political struggle over the line's future between Mayor Wagner and Albany Republicans...
Most of the world's newly independent nations lack the traditions and the training to make democracy work. Yet such is the magic of the word that dictators use it to justify their own brand of one-man rule. Indonesia's Sukarno and Nepal's King Mahendra call it "guided democracy," Guinea's Touré has "total democracy," Egypt's Nasser his "presidential democracy." The strongman most entitled to claim "democracy" for an essentially undemocratic system may well be Pakistan's benevolent dictator, President Mohammed Ayub Khan. His catch phrase: "basic democracies...
Shares In Orbit. Mercury's success has sent McDonnell's shares scooting from 1961's low of 22½ to last week's 48. James McDonnell, who controls his company with 27% of its stock (worth $44 million), runs a one-man show. But he prides himself on good relations with "the team," boasts that he has never laid off an executive, and even gives his workers a paid holiday on United Nations...