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...friends have written me many angry letters saying that in your otherwise excellent and enthusiastic review of the Broadway musical comedy, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying [Oct. 27], you made no reference to the book from which it sprang, nor to me, its author. I am not angry at TIME, which indeed did more to launch the book originally than any other publication...
...sooner had the stockholders of National Airlines routinely re-elected George T. ("Ted") Baker, 60, as chairman and president, than the tough old pilot sprang a surprise: though continuing as chairman of the company, he resigned as president and chief executive officer in favor of his personable nephew, 42-year-old Robert E. Wieland. One Wieland plan to snap National out of its financial spin (it lost more than $7,250,000 for the year ended June 30): "Make it easier for the passenger to get his ticket and get aboard-and when he deplanes, get his baggage...
...jumpy, emaciated wretch with a fleshless face of dingy skin and bone and twitching veins squirming subcutaneously in the blackened hollows behind his eyes like severed sections of snake. Hungry Joe ate voraciously, gnawed incessantly at the tips of his fingers, stammered, choked, itched, sweated, salivated and sprang from spot to spot fanatically with an intricate black camera with which he was always trying to take pictures of naked girls." And Heller can fill one page with yammering, visceral horror, can make the next prance with fleecy hilarity. He can, in short, write with a fire not often found...
...Miami the exiles shrugged. "Yesterday I was well off," said one. "Today I have nothing." In Cuba some people burned their money, and others spent it. Housewives packed the meager stores; Havana's tomblike luxury restaurants sprang suddenly to life. One man sat at a bar calmly lighting cigars with 20-peso bills: a shop owner stood on the sidewalk passing out money and crying: "The end of the world has come...
...Bearden said that he would commit suicide before he would let himself be killed or captured. Seeing an opening, the Border Patrol's Gilman shot out his fist, dropped the older hijacker with an uppercut so powerful that it fractured his own fist. The FBI man and Simmons sprang on young Cody Bearden and, after ten grueling hours, it was all over. The Beardens, handcuffed, were led off to face life sentences on charges of kidnaping and transporting a stolen plane. Their trip to Cuba would have to wait...