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...engineer who seriously insists to his employees that he wants "work to be fun" -and sets something of an example by putting in an 8:30-to-6 day, rarely taking work home at night or on weekends. But he knows how to wield both the ax and the scepter-and he has found enough time in ordinary work days to wield both so well that the once-slumbering Westinghouse has leaped to life. When he took over after the resignation of the late Mark Cresap, says Burnham, "I didn't have to think long about what...
Instead of an episcopal staff, Makarios, 51, carries a kingly scepter, and he signs all his documents in red ink. These are not the personal eccentricities of the only cleric to govern a sovereign nation, but privileges accorded the archbishops of Cyprus by 5th century Byzantine Emperor Zeno as his tribute to one of Christendom's most ancient strongholds. It was jt only a dozen years after Jesus' death that the apostle Paul brought Christianity to Cyprus, and Paul's companion, Barnabas, became the island's first bishop and patron saint. In 431, the Council...
Married. Dorian Leigh, 44, queen of U.S. fashion models until she passed the scepter to her younger sister, Suzy Parker; and Iddo Ben-Gurion, sometime playwright, no kin to Israel's former Premier; she for the fifth time, he for the first; in Paris...
...Morris Cafritz, 77, Washington real estate man and builder, known for his 100-acre Parklands housing development and shopping center in southeast D.C., but-best remembered as the rich husband of Gwen Cafritz, who in the '40s and '50s clashed cocktail crystals with Perle Mesta for the scepter of hostess with the mostess until Jackie Kennedy arrived; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...incipient hoods who call themselves the Pythons. Most of them are even younger than Duke, but all of them fight booze, smoke tea, use girls, snag purses and carry switchblades. A knife, alas, is not enough for Duke. He longs with mystical intensity to possess a gun: a scepter to define his will and a power to impose it upon the white man's world. The film describes how Duke fails to find the object of his obsession but discovers that a knife is also able to kill a man. At the fade, two white policemen begin to beat...