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...shrewd, ambitious, high-speed operator who somehow manages to be a popular fellow nonetheless. He plays softball with Pancho Gonzales and the sons of Bing Crosby. He is probably the only regular at the craps tables of Las Vegas who goes off in the daytime to water-ski on nearby Lake Mead above Hoover Dam, and his go-go dynamism stops dead when the Dodgers are playing in Chavez Ravine. He takes off for the ball park...
...other hand, the Algerians are a shrewd, pragmatic people whose friendship for the West has survived the bitterness of war. Most Moslems seem to be aware that U.S. surplus food, though little publicized, is supplying three-quarters of the daily diet for 3,000,000 Algerians. As in other new African countries, the people are also discovering that Communist-bloc aid is mostly window dressing; since Khrushchev's hasty retreat from Cuba, they have become even more leary of Soviet attempts to make Ben Bella the Castro of Africa. Whatever the subject under discussion, Algerians often ask: "What...
Nikita Khrushchev is a resourceful, imaginative and tough opponent who obviously has a great many tricks left in the back of his shrewd peasant mind. But, except for those who seem constitutionally unable to believe that the Russians can ever make mistakes, there is an almost worldwide consensus that in Cuba Khrushchev had overextended himself, and that he has been forced back in a test of will with...
...Stepping up to the honorary presidency of his huge Rank Organisation Ltd., Britain's shrewd Lord Rank, 73, turned over the chairmanship to John Henry Davis, 55. Five years ago, as Rank's deputy in running Britain's biggest film studios and theater chain (507 houses), Davis, a onetime accountant, decided that increased pay and leisure would lure working-class Britons away from the movies to other and costlier forms of entertainment. Accordingly, the Rank Organisation closed or sold 148 theaters and put the proceeds into dance halls, bowling centers, highway restaurants and a new electronics division...
KHRUSHCHEV'S offer to remove his missile bases from Cuba if the U.S. would dismantle its missiles in Turkey was a cynical piece of statesmanship. It took shrewd advantage of the frets and feelings expressed by many peace-loving, non-Communist handwringers in the U.S. and other countries. In Philadelphia, for example, Norman Thomas, sometime Socialist Party candidate for President last week paraded outside city hall with a placard proclaiming: NO SOVIET BASE IN CUBA-NO U.S. BASE IN TURKEY...