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...Berlin, the brisk businessmen who have built Europe's sturdiest economy from the rubble of war. Fiat's Managing Director Vittorio Valleta flew in from Turin, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s George Meany from Washington, Banker G. D. Birla from India. Biggest delegation was a 202-man phalanx of U.S. executives spanning the economy from Ritz Crackers to R.C.A...
...Eisenhower study the fiscal policies of this Government, because one cannot do that without brains, and he does not have them." While gallery spectators gasped and Capehart, outraged, tried to break in, Kerr went grandly on: "If the greatest fiscal experts this nation has ever produced marched in solid phalanx before Eisenhower for months ... he would emerge from the experience just as uninformed...
Together, the Chandlers and the Times press their Otis-given faith in change and growth. In their phalanx too are the engineers, scientists, physicists, educators, artists and managers who one day, say the planners, will stretch Los Angeles for miles beyond its explosive perimeter, embracing perhaps 20 million souls, and very likely leading the nation in thought and achievement as well as sunglasses and kidney-bean swimming pools...
Plunging into the Democratic primary with the St. Louis press behind him, Tucker beat down the solid opposition of the regular Democrats, triumphed over the machine candidate by a slim (1,500 votes) majority. A month later, with a solid phalanx of G.O.P. and Democratic friends and businessmen behind him, Ray Tucker beat his Republican opponent and became St. Louis' 38th mayor in a stunning (142,839-82,000) landslide...
Down with the Phalanx. For Tamayo, a proud Mexican and fullblood Zapotec Indian, such success is sweet balm for long years of struggle in Manhattan and of official ostracism in his own city. Outside Mexico Tamayo has in recent years won a hatful of international awards, including a $5,000 first prize at Sāo Paulo's 1953 biennial, a second in last year's Carnegie International (but not the Barcelona Biennial grand prize, which Tamayo turned down, later explaining: "I am not on good terms with Mr. Franco"). At home Tamayo, outspokenly antiCommunist, has been...