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Died. Walter Clark Teagle, 83, former president and board chairman of Standard Oil of New Jersey, a brilliant industrial strategist with the bulldog build and weatherbeaten face of an oilfield rousta bout; after a long illness; in Byram, Conn. The son and grandson of wealthy oilmen, Teagle rebuilt Standard after it was fragmented by a court decree in 1911, before he retired in 1942 mapped the overseas operations that made the company a world power in oil, but spared enough attention from his headlong expansion of Standard to pioneer in worker representation on refinery councils and (in 1915) the eight...
...highlight of his talk was a bit of Canadian-American history: "In the War of 1812, the Scotch- Canadian soldiers marched down to Washington with their kilts, skirts, and other implements of war. They ate lunch at the President's Restaurant, and then, burnt it down. It was rebuilt and painted white, so Canada deserves credit for the White House...
...Russian, Hindus concludes, live in a society built upon a strong ideological foundation. Economical and institutional walls do tumble here and there, and others are torn down and rebuilt. Having no rigid structure, their society is-as yet- a house without a roof...
...West. Abroad, should it lead Khrushchev to believe his own propaganda about capitalist weakness, it could lead to fatal miscalculation and war. And at home, so far, it has not noticeably weakened his grip. Though Khrushchev has dismantled much of Stalin's police state, he has shrewdly rebuilt the Communist Party-demoralized under Stalin-as Russia's dominant force. In fact, the Khrushchev Code almost lyrically extols the party and promises that even in that distant day when "the state will wither away," the party will remain. Through such devices as citizens' courts, voluntary "people...
...heart of present-day London is a one-square-mile area known simply as the City. After the Great Fire of 1666 wiped out its 13,000 houses and 84 churches, from Pudding Lane to Newgate, the City was gradually rebuilt-most of its churches by Sir Christopher Wren. But by World War II it had become more and more a place in which to work rather than to live; the nighttime population was down to 8,000, and after the blitz there were only 5,000, many of them caretakers and night watchmen. But there were still the remains...