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...Mike Mansfield's heir apparent to the Senate's majority leadership. In addition, with the resignation of Virginia Democrat Harry Byrd (TIME, Nov. 19), Long, the ranking Democrat on Byrd's powerful Senate Finance Committee, will automatically become committee chairman when Congress reconvenes in January. Seldom in Senate history has one man held two such pivotal posts, and there were hints last week that fellow Senators will try to relieve him of one, probably the whip...
...freak? Not at all, just a voice so seldom heard today as to sound strangely neuter at first hearing. But once the ear adapts to Deller's pure, vibratoless voice spiraling effortlessly up through the range of the female alto, the effect is entrancing. In two Handel arias, it floated lightly and lonely as a lark above the bustle of the orchestra. The performance had all the fresh appeal of a lost art rediscovered, which, in fact, it is. Deller is now 53, but when he first achieved recognition, he was the first virtuoso countertenor in 120 years. Almost...
...first as a special assistant to President Manuel Roxas and later. as a member of the House and Senate. He has never lost an election, and in winning his Senate seat, he piled up the greatest plurality ever in a Philippine election. Wiry and energetic, he never smokes and seldom drinks. He and his wife, who is the daughter of a politically powerful family that controls Leyte and Samar, have three children. Until last year, Marcos was a leading Liberal Party man. But then, sensing Macapagal's yearnings for a second term, he bolted to the Nationalist Party, where...
...thing, people tended to lie about their looks, checked themselves off as attractive when "not exceptionally attractive" would have been a generous judgment. For another, the early computer program told a subscriber who his "ideal mate" was and whose "ideal mate" he was, but the names were seldom the same. One pioneer received a letter from a girl saying that as he was her dream come true on paper, she wanted to meet him in the flesh. When he finally stood face to face with her, he recalls: "I didn't know whether to crowbar her into...
...merger brokers. Business has seldom been better for these brokers; the number of mergers is rising, last year jumped to a record 1,797. The brokers - who thought up the largest share of these combinations - have a broad, objective view of the entire economy that enables them to make imaginative matches of companies in disparate industries. The middlemen may be blue-chip commercial bankers or account ants, such as Morgan Guaranty and Price Waterhouse, or management consultants or even public-relations...