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Three years ago, fat Fuad Serag el Din was one of Egypt's masters. He planted his bulk firmly behind a huge desk equipped with seven phones, four squawk-boxes, three fountain pens and a mound of specially rolled, bat-sized Havanas, and bossed the secret police as Interior Minister, the treasury as Finance Minister, and the nation's No.1 political party as secretary general of the Wafd...
...trading hard on its cold war value to the West, wants all the Free Territory except the city of Trieste for itself, demands that the port be internationalized to keep it out of Italy's control. But diplomatic soundings in Belgrade suggested that Marshal Tito, though he would squawk, might be brought to settle for an arrangement that would leave him in control of the less populous Zone B part of the divided Free Territory of Trieste...
...command, much of the Wilson approach was new and surprising. For example: where many Washington executives like to inflict upon their subordinates the unsettling experience of hearing the boss's voice come out of empty air, one of Wilson's first acts was to order the "squawk box" moved out of his office so that he could do business face to face...
...small radio station, WQAO, in the basement of his church, and took to the air with his evangelistic message. Said Pastor Straton: "I hope that our radio system will prove so efficient that when I twist the Devil's tail in New York, his squawk will be heard across the continent...
...obstetrician's wife who has had two out of four children "naturally," I cannot let the remarks of Drs. Mandy et al. [TIME, Jan. 19] go unchallenged. The key to their squawk about natural childbirth lies in the assertion that "tried and true methods are suffering unfairly by comparison . . ." Childbirth under anesthesia demands, I admit, less time and effort from the doctor than the natural delivery, at which he must be like a coach to an athlete in the field. When these doctors develop a more mature relationship with their patients, they will see for themselves the rewards, medical...