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...sell insurance and new ways to invest the Pru's billions, that he has turned the Rock of Gibraltar, the company's famed trademark, into something resembling a volcano. By dint of his ideas and exertions, Shanks has not only become one of the most respected spokesmen for U.S. life insurance, but has also made the Pru, whose head offices are in Newark, N.J., the fastest-growing company in a rapidly expanding industry. In the last 30 years the U.S. life insurance industry has more than doubled its policyholders, quadrupled its insurance in force, and nearly quadrupled...
Ostensibly, Sumual's demands were much the same as those of the Sumatra rebels: autonomy within the Indonesian Republic, plus local control of the foreign exchange earned by East Indonesia's exports. But in Djakarta, Indonesian army spokesmen suggested that the spark which set off the revolt was Sukarno's plan to bring the Communists into a reorganized Indonesian government (TIME, March 4). Unless Sukarno backs down, he might one day find that he is President of little more than the island of Java...
...favorite playground of U.N. demagoguery-the touchy subject of colonialism-a unanimous General Assembly last week adopted a moderate resolution encouraging France to work out its own problems in Algeria. And in the complicated Middle East, where religious hatreds, economic rivalries and power struggles all have their angry spokesmen in the U.N., there was a general willingness (to which even Russia had to pay lip service) to try the way of mediation...
...this is an illustration of its effect), but says his most valuable course was in the Hisory of Science. Some, like O'Neill, were here only to study writing with George Pierce Baker. Others, like Wolfe, rebelled against the academics. Some, like T. S. Eliot, (perhaps unwilling) became spokesmen for both Harvard education and Harvard outlook...
...stomachs of prisoners groggy with narcotics and rubbing alcohol. Then the prisoners named the price of surrender: their grievances, over such matters as bad food, harsh treatment, must get publicity and an investigation by Governor George D. Clyde. The convicts snatched at Larson's idea of putting their spokesmen on a national TV network as the best means of airing their complaints. KTVT, an NBC affiliate, arranged for the network to carry such interviews as soon as Today reached the air at 7 a.m., E.S.T. Ironically, a snarl kept the interviews off the network, but the prisoners, not knowing...