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...Force already has a large fleet of B-47s, B-52s and B-58s. The President and the Secretary of Defense have decided that the U.S. does not, despite LeMay's loud claims for the bomber's usefulness. But LeMay plans to continue his one-man war in Congress. This raises the second issue whether or not a military officer should conduct a campaign in Congress to obtain appropriations which his superiors have deemed unwise...
...into the hands of a conspiracy, in which avant-garde wild-men were abetted by avant-garde critics and avant-garde patrons. It is an idea that many another citizen has come to share. Hartford, with a sense of having found a mission in life at last, launched a one-man crusade against the conspiracy...
...moved into the office left vacant last month by the death of J. Spencer Love, Burlington Industries' candid new President Charles F. Myers, 50, made it plain that the era of one-man rule had ended for the world's largest textile empire (1961 sales: $866 million). Says Myers in a rich Charleston accent: "No one will take the load that Mr. Love took. Management from now on will be a team operation." Lured away from a banking career during a series of tennis games with Love 15 years ago. Myers started off at Burlington as a financial...
...more than any other U.S. automaker, American Motors Corp. under George Romney has been a one-man show. Last week, when Romney stepped out as chairman and president of A.M.C. to campaign for the Republican nomination for Governor of Michigan, the company's directors chose two men to take his place...
...giant murals done with a fiery palette mixed from Brazilian earths; of a stroke following cumulative lead poisoning induced by his own pigments; in Rio de Janeiro. An Italian immigrant's son who once painted signs for mule carts, Portinari was the first South American ever given a one-man show by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, and, though an avowed Communist for much of his career, accepted commissions for a portrait of former Brazilian President Janio Quadros for TIME'S cover (June 30, 1961), the monumental War and Peace panels in the U.N. General Assembly...