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...planned companion to Inside U.S.A., a book on U.S. politics. He will also edit Doubleday's ambitious Mainstream of Modern World History series. He is making notes for an autobiographical book on the people and events he has covered, and is pondering a biography of his longtime friend Sinclair Lewis. Next year he plans to go Inside Australia. It is virtually the earth's last unguntherized land mass. By the time the book comes out, explorers of outer space may have given him new worlds to conquer. Frets Gunther: "What disturbs and upsets me is that there...
...Edward L. Steiniger, 55, executive vice president of Sinclair Oil, stepped up to president, succeeding Percy C. Spencer, 64, who become chairman of the board and remains chief executive officer. Steiniger joined Sinclair in 1925, went to Venezuela in 1928. became president of Sinclair Venezuelan Petroleum in 1950. He was elected vice president of the parent company in 1955, became executive vice president last year...
Commerce Secretary Sinclair ("Sinny") Weeks once dismayed partisans of freer world trade by publicly labeling himself a "protectionist." That was five years ago. Last week chunky, mild-mannered Secretary Weeks, 64, rock-ribbed Massachusetts Republican of the old school that traditionally considered tariff protectionism a fundamental GOPrinciple, stomped in out of a snowstorm to appear before the House Ways and Means Committee. He was there as the Administration's chief spokesman for what may be 1958's most bitterly fought legislative proposal: the bill to promote freer trade by 1) extending the reciprocal trade act for five years...
Flinging his innuendoes high, wide and handsome, Schwartz paraded such names as White House Staff Chief Sherman Adams. Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks and George Gordon Moore (Mamie Eisenhower's brother-in-law). He darkly suggested that they had improperly influenced the regulatory agencies-and in a later statement, even while admitting that he was far from developing any complete case, he cried that he had "planned to bring to light the machinations of the White House clique in controlling decisions of these agencies...
California, the land of cults and characters, had seen youth assert itself before--when Upton Sinclair almost captured the state house and Hiram Johnson clicked his heels in the Capitol. California, the political incubator for Knowlands, Knights, and Nixons, endured in its weary Western way the assault of the amateurs...