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...other words, the Common Market's Fouchet committee could start from scratch again this week when it begins another round in planning One Europe -an irresistible idea, which Charles de Gaulle may dislike but which will be left for the generation after Charles de Gaulle to achieve...
...Japanese. Konosuke Matsushita's name means "lucky man beneath the pines," but his success owes more to pluck than luck. While he was still a child, his parents and five of his seven brothers and sisters died in rapid succession, leaving him, a frail orphan, to scratch for a living. With no family to discipline him in the rigid Japanese rules of life, which dictated that a boy must stick with his first employer for life. Matsushita at 1 6 deserted his job as apprentice bicycle repairman to join the Osaka Electric Light Co. because he saw more future...
Judgments & Responsibility. ABC's best witness was James Hagerty, Eisenhower's longtime press secretary, who was hired by ABC to overhaul its news service. Hagerty told how "from scratch" he had built "a vital major news operation" in one year, increasing the New York staff by 50%, more than doubling the network's Washington news bureau, and increasing news-programming time by 37%. Hagerty was both impressive and-toward his new colleagues—a bit snobbish. He seemed almost eager to disassociate himself from them...
...growing strength based on its virulent anti-Moslem, antiminority appeal. Jana Sangh's Hindu reactionaries would restrict the rights of Moslems, Christians and untouchables ; they would forbid cow slaughter all over India. Jana Sangh is confident that it can win many Congress voters away from their party. "Scratch a Congressman and you find a Jan Sanghi," says a party leader. But the party is strongly opposed by many Hindus who disapprove of its fanaticism...
...like the piano, whose tone is kept in tune by the tuner," Jascha Heifetz once complained. "Playing the violin is all guesswork; you cannot even scratch a mark on the wood so you can tell where to put your fingers to repeat the right note...