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True to his reputation for intransigence, the younger Thurston refused to relinquish the reins of his faltering newspaper. He scorned the man who seemed destined to succeed him, his Yale-trained nephew, Thurston Twigg-Smith. "He's never been any damn good at anything," he sneered. Twigg-Smith, however, had a different view of his own abilities. In 1961, he engineered a "palace revolution." Though he controlled only 42% of the paper's stock, he quietly signed up other rebels, including the paper's ambitious editor George Chaplin, who had been hired from the New Orleans Item...
...leader has ominously declared: "Dialogue can't help but hurt the church." Nonetheless, Dialogue's growing subscription list now stands at more than 3,000, and its editors insist that Mormonism has nothing to fear from self-appraisal. Says Managing Editor Eugene England: "A man need not relinquish his faith to be intellectually respectable, nor his intellect to be faithful...
...when the Bung got up to speak was General Abdul Haris Nasution, whom he had fired as Defense Minister only four months before; Nasution had just been unanimously elected chairman of the Congress. Seated next to the podium was Lieut. General Suharto, to whom Sukarno had been forced to relinquish emergency powers in March; Suharto had just been unanimously confirmed by the Congress as the effective head of the government. About all that was left before the Congress was whether to strip Sukarno of his title, which was about all he had left...
Last week, troubled by failing eyesight, S. S. Kresge at 98 retired as chairman of the company he has nurtured for 69 years. Turning to younger blood, Kresge directors gave the chairmanship to S. S.'s son, Stanley, 66, who last year had to relinquish his vice-presidency upon reaching the firm's mandatory retirement age for operating personnel. The company's day-to-day operations will continue to be under control of $163,400-a-year President Harry B. Cunningham...
...caving in to Buddhist demands, and hence might be plotting a coup. An other could be Buddhist Leader Thich Tri Quang, who seems unlikely to endorse Ky's one-year timetable. Whatever the case, Ky made it clear that although he will honor his pledge to relinquish power to civilians, he will not tolerate a Communist or neutralist regime. "I don't think the elections will result in a Communist or neutralist government," said Ky. "But if they do, we will fight. I don't care if they are elected or not, we'll fight...