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...Britain, the plan, long known in outline and long discussed, met with sober approval. After Suez there was no use even pretending that Britain could act alone. "Realistic, sensible, and therefore drastic," said the Manchester Guardian. Politically minded Tories noted gratefully that the unpopular conscription might end just about general election time in 1960. Laborites could hardly oppose an arms cut they have long been urging...
...profits." ¶CJ Coca-Cola President William E. Robinson, just back from a swing through company plants around the country: "With the availability of goods high and profit margins smaller, the consumer goods industry has the most competitive year we have seen since the war. But I found a sober, realistic, serious optimism that is based on a hardheaded analysis of conditions in every region...
...Prudential was not seriously involved in the great scandals. Founded a quarter of a century earlier by a sober, bookish young man named John Fairfield Dryden, it did its first business in "industrial insurance" for the workingman, policies that cost only pennies a week for up to $500 worth of life insurance. By 1911, when Founder Dryden died, it had 10 million policyholders on its rolls, soon afterward started shifting over from a stock company to a mutual operation owned by its policyholders...
...only one to win the name and tabloid fame of a moneyed playboy is big (6 ft. 3 in., 235 Ibs.), genial Winthrop Rockefeller, 44. The details of his life and marital woes-gleefully chronicled in the nation's press-have attracted as much public attention as the sober hard work of all his brothers combined. Four years ago, hoping to get away from it all, Winthrop forsook the cabarets of Manhattan for the hills of Arkansas. There, on a ridge 50 miles from Little Rock, he built a magnificent, $1,500,000 cattle farm called Winrock, from which...
...bubble reputation the satiric point is apparently intended to prick. But the bubble is never blown; from the first scene, Niven is represented as little more than a passive scratching-post for a pack of pampered cats. But suddenly, in the last scenes, he turns into the father image-sober, sound, sententious, and yet as modern as a cubist grandfather's clock. In the meantime, the moviegoer has weltered through a series of vaguely amusing scenes that go nowhere almost as fast as the well-known labyrinth dream...