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Achtung! The Parisian windows flew open-there below "they" had returned. The street teemed with Wehrmacht uniforms, trucks and gunning motorcycles. Over in the Place de la Concorde the scene was even more incredible: U.S. Sherman tanks were grinding over the cobblestones, shooting it out with panzer units. On the He de la Cite, sandbags were piled up before cafes and Molotov cocktails exploded all around the Palais de Justice...
Important as it is, Moyers' role is often exasperated. He is no éminence grise, for Johnson is loath to delegate power; and when he does, it is never on a full-authority basis, as was the case with Dwight Eisenhower and Sherman Adams, or, to a lesser degree, with John F. Kennedy and Brother Bobby. The most Moyers can do is nudge the President, but he does so with less trepidation than anyone whose initials are not L.B.J. When the President got to talking at a recent luncheon, it looked as if he would ramble on until dusk...
...ANTITRUST. To what extent can manufacturers restrict franchise retailers? Chevrolet dealers in Los Angeles sold new cars at bargain rates through dis count houses. By stopping them, argues the Government, General Motors restrained trade and violated the Sherman Act. The trustbusters insist that such franchise agreements hobble merchants across the country...
...plan of the pavilion introduces an architectural innovation. Designed by Sherman Morss '33, of Shepley, Richardson, Bulfinch, and Abbott, the architects of Leverett Towers and Quincy House, the boathouse will be attached to a floating barge. The unique construction will enable the combined structure to rise and fall with the level of the Charles River...
Admitted, Established. A small-time bootlegger with three months at Leavenworth to his credit, Oklahoman Sherman Billingsley had spent Prohibition managing a few New York speakeasies, including one called the Stork Club. When Prohibition ended, Billingsley took the name, and in 1934 set up shop with the dispassionate intent of getting rich off the rich. The idea collided with a need. Once again there were people with money, some of it old, quite a bit of it new, some borrowed, and not too much of it blue-blooded. And many of them craved a place where they could be both...