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...object, therefore, was to delay implementation of any reapportionment schemes until such time as the Congress and the states could effect a constitutional amendment barring jurisdiction of the federal courts. To this end, Ev Dirksen filed a rider onto the foreign aid bill. It was a shrewd move: President Johnson could ill afford to veto foreign aid just to kill an obnoxious amendment. Dirksen's proposal required that federal courts, "in the absence of unusual circumstances," automatically grant stays in reapportionment cases if so much as one citizen in an affected state requested it. To Senate liberals and Administration...
...that there is anything to be scared of. Control Data's success is due to the shrewd marketing strategy and careful planning program worked out by the eleven Sperry Rand engineers-led by Norris-who founded the firm in 1957 after tiring of life in a big corporation. Realizing that they could not compete directly with the giants, they concentrated on scientific computers, where IBM was weakest, instead of on business data-processing equipment, where it was strongest. They made all their machines compatible with IBM systems at a time when most other computer firms were setting up their...
Surprise in Store. Many Canadian investors placed considerable trust in the prime mover of Windfall: Viola MacMillan, 61, a shrewd, hard-driving prospector since 1923 and the dark-haired darling of Canada's mining men. Miners had elected Viola president of the Prospectors and Developers Association 21 times, and serenaded her each time with a lively rendition of Let Me Call You Sweetheart. She and her husband George, the president of Windfall, were called "the mining Mac-Millans." They also kept stockholders in the dark. To one questioner, Viola replied cryptically: "A lot of people are going...
...NIGHT OF THE IGUANA. Under John Huston's shrewd direction, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr and Richard Burton unpack their troubles at a seedy Mexican hotel in a drama that stirs the senses, persuades the mind, and sometimes touches the heart...
...NIGHT OF THE IGUANA. Under John Huston's shrewd direction, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr and Richard Burton unpack their troubles at a seedy Mexican hotel in a drama that stirs the senses, persuades the mind, and sometimes touches the heart...