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...almost killed by malaria and by Communist rebels. He came back to the U.S. in 1938 to preach of the peril of Japanese expansion, made 1,400 speeches in two years urging the U.S. to stop sending war supplies to the Japanese. "I spent my time taking American scrap out of Chinese men women and children," he told House and Senate hearings...
...summit a watershed in Nikita Khrushchev's regime? Had he seized on the U-2 to scrap his policy of rapprochement with the U.S. while loudly blaming the U.S. for its failure? It seemed so. Apparently, Nikita Khrushchev was abandoning his detente policy as a ploy that had failed, and reverting to the old Stalinist policy of toughness...
...chief gauge: "Finding the kid who looks stronger on incentive, who has a real motive." Recalls Dudley: "We moved around the table, shuffling papers. We moved more and more slowly." It took two days to eliminate 50 of 200 candidates for 150 places. "We have to look for every scrap of information we can get. We've turned down kids who were absolutely terrific, kids who could have walked in here three years ago. We would have gone on our hands and knees to get them...
...many as 150 alcoholics-on-the-mend line up for their shots of vitamin B12. The nerve-soothing vitamins are paid for partly by the Corktown Guild, whose members are mostly bartenders, and partly by the Corktown Coop, made up of men trying to rehabilitate themselves, who scavenge scrap to raise the money for their injections...
...giants rarely compete on the basis of price. But they insist that they are competitive as well as clubby. "Personally, we may all be the best of friends," says Shell Managing Director Tim Wilkinson, "but after we say goodbye to each other, we go back to our offices and scrap like hell." At a time when profit margins are dwindling, one favorite way of hitting a competitor is to make it as expensive as possible for him to move into a new market. In Morocco, an old Shell market that Jersey Standard raided after the war, the Group applied...