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Ilya Glazanov, 28, chose the third path and invoked the wrath of Culture Minister Mikhailov. Last year he exhibited a one-man show whose main interest point was a modest picture of his beautiful wife Nina lying nude on a bed. Man-in-the-street comments ran from "beautiful woman" to "shocking bourgeois immorality...
Because Batista acted in a manner unfit for a man, Castro cannot expect the world to accept him now as judge and executioner. The world has had enough of all that one-man brutality. Even in Argentina, where surely there was cause, there was little vengeance...
TUNISIA. Volatile President Habib Bourguiba, 55, runs his nation like a one-man show, dismissing opponents, lecturing visitors, and ruling by decree. But he is not the complete master of Tunisia's fate, or of his own. His professions of loyalty to the West have earned him the hatred of the neutralists. Nasser's Radio Cairo beams an unceasing stream of Goebbels-like propaganda into Tunisia...
...Giannini's invitation after an early career in banking, took over as president in 1954. So wrapped up is he in his job that he has given up all outside hobbies (except gardening). His chief task has been to transform the bank from the temperamental, one-man bailiwick of autocratic A. P. Giannini into a smoothly mechanical, multiple-management operation...
...over Cuba, the Times took Phillips on as its Havana correspondent, and Ruby became his legman. When he was killed in an auto accident in 1937, Ruby took over his job. She has reigned since as the only resident U.S. newspaper correspondent in Cuba (although U.P.I, and A.P. maintain one-man bureaus), developing a reputation for balanced, if colorless reporting...