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Still looking pale and sickly after major abdominal surgery (TIME, March 28), British Laborite Aneurin Bevan, 62, issued assurances that he has no plans to write his memoirs, then took a spirited swipe at those who so much as read that sort of thing. He singled out a favorite target: Britain's Tory Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Said Bevan: "I understand that Macmillan reads political biographies. I have never been able to achieve that credulity. My experience of public life has taught me to know that most of them are entirely unreliable. I would rather take my fiction straight...
...future paid off handsomely. Magnavox sales jumped 36% to $107 million in 1959, and profits rose 85% to $4,500,000. The company now sells 20% to 25% of all stereo sets over $250, expects stereo sales alone to hit $70 million in 1960. Says Freimann, in a swipe at competitors : "There's been a tremendous confusion about what stereo is supposed to mean. One set I know of has 15 knobs, and some advertisers say you can only hear stereo properly if you sit in the middle of the room. That's ridiculous. The fact about stereo...
...difference between a working liberal and a talking liberal . . . I for one have no time for the Johnny-come-lately, well-fed liberals who would like to have a disproportionate voice in the party. I think you know who they are." He made it clear, in a passing swipe, that he was sore at the once-devoted New York Post, which had recently taken some potshots at him. But beyond that, nobody was quite certain whom he had in mind; he could have meant Stevenson, whose passive third-time availability galls him, or he could even have meant Eleanor Roosevelt...
...creates it through simple brutality. His command is a native Mule Company of blacks, whom he keeps in line with regular floggings. In all the district his word is law, and since he is close to seven feet tall and can break a man's jaw with a swipe of his fist, he never gets any back talk. Others may want to leave Belele for a more civilized post, but not de Goltz. Half Dutch, half native, he knows that he has reached his peak, and glories in the power to flog, execute, ride herd on his three young...
Replied Reuther: "The company has refused to bargain, to arbitrate, to mediate. The company will get nowhere by the continuation of their nonsense." Then he took a swipe at the automaker's profits: "They have been fleecing the public...