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Every town in the U.S. is famous for something-just go there and ask. Mountain View, Ark. (pop. 983), makes its proudest claim as the birthplace of three businesslike brothers who have long since fled Mountain View. Luther and Howard Powell are minor captains of industry, having hewed their way directly to vice-presidencies of International Harvester and the Illinois Central Railroad. Richard took a more circuitous route, first becoming a song-and-dance man, then a movie idol, next a bullet-voiced private eye, before settling down as one of the major-and sharpest-businessmen in U.S. television...
...grim, seasoned, Belgian-trained Katanga regulars in their steel helmets and jungle camouflage. Fighting and dying on a daily ration of a handful of maize, they dart stealthily from corner to corner, searching grimly for a target. After four days of fighting, the pickings are slim, for their proudest boast is that not a single U.N. soldier is to be seen in the city's core today...
...Sponsored by the Council of Europe, an organization dedicated to the cause of European unity, the exhibition includes works from nearly every European country this side of the Iron Curtain. The treasures were so many that Spain divided them between the Palace of Montjuich in Barcelona and its own proudest Romanesque monument, the great Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela...
Mostly political and military writers, the group heard a welcome by J. Hampden Robb, University Marshal, and were ushered through two of the University's proudest possessions...
...Souls' proudest pursuit is dinner-table conversation; in few other stylized societies, even the cannibalistic, do men so assiduously eat their way to power. On weekends, the talk lures Fellows and former Fellows ("quondams") from all over England for "an intellectual Turkish bath," and sometimes All Souls pays a penalty. In the 1930s, when some of its Fellows were notorious architects of appeasement, "that disastrous dinner table" (as Lord Boothby put it) tarred All Souls with the ignominious brush of Munich. Long since recovered from that cabalistic image. All Souls today is a unique bridge between thought and action...