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Over the past two years, the U.S. lodged several low-level protests. The West Germans never took them very seriously. Now, however, Carter has made the danger of nuclear proliferation a central pillar of his foreign policy. Bonn is outraged that Washington is publicly trying to undercut the agreement, and is vowing to proceed anyway...
...proclaimed the news of history's most famous nautical disaster in typical fashion. Right below a banner headline that announced the sinking of the British luxury liner Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland, the American sadly told the world of the drowning of John Jacob Astor, prominent financier and pillar of New York society. Subsequent paragraphs of the story dealt with the equally shattering deaths of Archibald Butt, President Taft's military advisor, and Harry Elkins Widener of library fame. The news of the 1499 others who perished in the numbing North Atlantic that night--most of them Irish...
Miss Eunice Fickett, who has been the pillar of The Crimson's business office since she came here in August, 1961, leaves the paper today to begin her retirement in Sarasota...
...West Wing. With a calm and deliberate manner -sharply different from the laid-back informality of the other Georgians-he presides at the daily 8 a.m. senior staff meetings and mediates when other aides differ. Before going to Washington, he was a highly successful lawyer and a pillar of Atlanta's Jewish community. He began advising Carter in 1966 and served as his campaign treasurer...
...they handle their overseas empires. Some of the companies that have not adapted to new realities of local pride and politics have learned to regret it. The most recent example is Sime Darby, a rubber and palm-oil conglomerate in Malaysia that had been one of the stouter remaining pillars of Britain's overseas commercial empire. That pillar fell with a crash over New Year's with an upheaval on the board of directors that put the company under effective control of the Malaysian government and had all the elements of a Graham Greene novel -intrigue, nationalism...