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...refugees thrust a bloody head out to ask where they were, West German police roared up to surround the plane. Communists and anti-Communists alike were gathered up in the gory shambles and carted off to a nearby hospital. As Hungary's Communist rulers set official radio channels buzzing with demands for the return of plane and passengers, two of the travelers who had known nothing of the plot to seize the airplane decided to join those who had planned it. Another, breathing the air of freedom, was restrained from asking for asylum only by the thought of what...
...case of the New England manufacturer who booted his incompetent production manager upstairs to "vice president in charge of personnel," where subordinates handled the job he was supposed to do. Many a corporate head creates positions to make work for friends, said A.I.M., and some invent titles merely to surround themselves with yesmen. Asks A.I.M.: "How can management, in all fairness, complain at labor featherbedding when managements are so widely guilty of the same practice? In management featherbedding. the damage is greater, the cost is larger and the bad example is more obvious...
NATO Headlines rarely surround the meetings of the foreign ministers of the 15 NATO nations who often seem to be the talking, as opposed to the military, branch of NATO. But as the foreign ministers gathered in Paris this week, a rare expectancy was in the air. NATO's leading nation had at last accepted the proposition put forward long ago by Canada's "Mike" Pearson and Italy's Giovanni Gronchi-that NATO should broaden its strictly military base and serve as the free world's chosen instrument in politics and economics...
...canteen the nurses and the noncoms drink their beer and sing their sentimental songs. The generals have a little champagne. A young captain (Oskar Werner) rages to a brother officer: "Why does he surround himself with slimy yes men?" Eva's brother-in-law pleads with her for a pass to leave the bunker: "I can be loyal in Bavaria...
Cars and trucks would be excluded to prevent congestion. Six large parking areas and modern highways are planned to surround the center to allow easy access. Though the district will be a purely pedestrian area, Grulen says that there would rarely be more than a two minute walk to any building in the area from the nearest garage. Underground trucking roads and slow moving carts would eliminate the problems of moving heavy baggage and crates...