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Through France's political revolving door, seven potential Premiers have whizzed in, whizzed out in the past six weeks. All were unable to form a cabinet. Last week one succeeded. The new Premier: tall (6 ft. 2 in.) taciturn René Pleven, who affects Homburg hats and an arctic reserve. He succeeded partly because all France was tired of revolving door politics...
Emir Hussein of Jordan, 15, slender, bookwormish grandson of King Abdullah and likeliest to succeed to Abdullah's vacant throne. A lonely, taciturn adolescent who dislikes sports, he differs strikingly from his fun-loving cousin, Iraq's Feisal. Despite his captain's commission in the Jordan army, Hussein prefers collecting guns to firing them. He is a bright student at Victoria College, a British school in Alexandria, Egypt, but hates the British, hopes eventually to chuck them out of Jordan...
...Taciturn Manager Richards, a throwback to the rough-tough John McGraw school of managing, may have no pennant winner this season, but he has coaxed and goaded a team which finished sixth last year into a first-division frame of mind. By this week the free-wheeling White Sox, leading the league in stolen bases (25 over runner-up New York with 15), had clawed and scrambled their way into second place in the standings (one game behind the world champion Yankees), and had stretched their winning streak to eleven...
Clarence E. Hood Jr., a taciturn and glum-faced lumber dealer, who headed the pro-Truman committee until he was fired in February by Democratic National Chairman Bill Boyle, denied that he knew about job selling, but he did testify that he had used Washington influence peddlers to get lumber contracts with the Government...
...University of Minnesota, where taciturn Bernard W. ("Bernie") Bierman, 59, had coached his alma mater's football team for 14 years, winning six Western Conference titles along the way, the situation was strained. With six losses and a tie, Minnesota was having its worst season in memory. One day last week Bernie tossed in the towel. Said he, in a characteristically formal Bierman statement: "I have requested that I be relieved of the football coaching duties at the end of the year." Minnesota's fangless Gophers were sorry to see Bernie go. At week's end they...