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These "soldier-industrialists" hold "sales conferences" and order subaltern flacks to tailor the corporate image. A photographer is told to do a general "from his good side only." From relatively safe distances, the symbolic big guns pump shells at the enemy. At the apex of this busy wedge of "middlemen," the "common laborers" at the front die in anonymous perplexity, to be replaced at once by other men whose dog tags were stamped at the same factory...
...first bloody months of independence only 15 months ago. Preparing for a possible new round of civil war, U.N. forces got their first shipment of eight jets (from Sweden and Ethiopia) last week, and one Congolese Cabinet officer bought a bulletproof vest from a discreet St. James's tailor in London...
...tailor's son, Ernst Paul Walter Ulbricht learned early the art of political survival. He was already a member of a workers' youth organization when he began his career in Leipzig as a cabinetmaker's apprentice at the age of 17 (."I am a carpenter by trade,'' he says proudly today ). Only a hundred miles away was Berlin, where Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht were working to merge their Spartakusbund with the splinter Socialists to form the German Communist Party. In 1920, two years after Rosa and Karl were killed by the authorities for provoking...
...Punta del Este: Please check if Dillon's suits come from Peale the Tailor. See THE NATION, Man with the Purse...
...Pressures on U.S. industry to improve quality and hold the price line will increase. U.S. exporters are beginning to talk about the immediate need to tailor products for foreign markets, e.g., lower prices, smaller appliances, instructions printed in foreign languages. Perhaps the best answer to how sharply the expanding Common Market will affect U.S. business came last week from Jack Camp, foreign-operations vice president of International Harvester Co.: "It will be strict ly a matter of how competitive we are in relation to the rest of the world...