Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anyone who likes living in a palace, presiding over state banquets and dedicating buildings, the presidency of Italy can be a highly rewarding seven-year job. But restless, silver-haired Giovanni Gronchi, who has held the post since 1955, has never adjusted himself to being a constitutional figurehead. He prefers power to pomp, any day. Last week, as Italy's latest political crisis dragged into its second month, Gronchi was well on his way to having both...
...press and an effective rather than a puppet Cortes. Most of them favored a constitutional monarchy with Don Juan or his son Juan Carlos on the throne as figurehead and real power at least temporarily in the hands of an army junta. Hitherto they had been concerned only about post-Franco Spain. Now increasingly there was talk that Franco himself, if he did nothing to relinquish some of his authority, might not last in power until his death...
General Motors in existence today. When Du Pont took control during the post-World War I depression, the young auto giant was headed for the rocks. Brilliant, mercurial William Crapo Durant, who put the company together, was $80 million in debt and on the verge of bankruptcy. Du Pont had already put $49 million into the company's stock. By risking another $31 million of its capital, Du Pont bailed out Durant and put the company back on course, not only with cash, but also with managerial talent. Du Pont President Pierre S. du Pont, who had been actively...
...hero is a newspaperman-"Miss Lonelyhearts" is his only name known to the reader-who writes the lovelorn column for the New York Post-Dispatch. He is one of West's quasi-religious figures: "A beard would become him, would accent his Old Testament look." To the millions without emotional refuge, says one character sardonically, "the Miss Lonelyhearts are the priests of twentieth-century America." The mail brings the daily semiliterate confessions of horror. "Dear Miss Lonelyhearts," one letter begins: "I am sixteen years old now and I dont know what to do ... When I was a little girl...
...Christopher Rand (279 pp.; Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3.75), offers still another view of Asia, not panoramic but miniaturist, with the focus on individual Asians. Unpretentious U.S. Journalist Christopher Rand, an old Asia hand, snaps some memorable candids of the famed and humble, ranging from Vinoba Bhave, India's post-Gandhi Gandhi (TIME, May 11, 1953), to Mr. Fu, a Hong Kong opium connoisseur with a palate as refined as that of the most finicky Western vinophile. There is a weatherbeaten Malayan old man of the sea who knows the language of the fish (sharks say "snnnnnng KWAH"). And there...