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...program in its history. Wilson, a vice president, had put the program through at a time when many another corporation was finding the capital market sticky. It was one of the big reasons he was picked when Walter Gifford decided that he would like to step aside. An easy talker, with a good memory for faces and names, new President Wilson is an impressive example of copybook maxims put into practice. "If you know what you're fitted to do and do it well," he once said, "your life will be a success...
...ears. He put headsets on eight "naive subjects" (not aware of the purpose of the experiment). Through one earphone came a recorded voice. Through the other came a sound like the hiss of steam. When the hiss was moderately loud, it made the speech sound louder, "as if the talker raises his voice in order to make himself heard above the noise...
...slacks and sweater, his hands habitually stuffed into his pockets, he has a rather tight, lean, nosy face which wrinkles easily into a vinegarish smile under a widow's peak of crinkly hair. He has a very English embarrassment about expressing emotion about anything. He is rarely a talker, usually a listener -a lanky, youthful but somehow worn-looking young man who is painfully awkward with strangers. Around his Suffolk coast home at Aldeburgh-the setting of Peter Grimes-the local folk are used to seeing him walking on the beach, or driving at a conservative speed...
...jovial sort, always calm and collected, Prio is the physical type the Cubans call "criollo"': dark hair (greying at 44), black mustache, a toothpaste-ad smile. He is a neat dresser, a quiet talker. Except for his antiCommunism, he has no platform so far. He promises only to carry on Grau's policies, hoping that the growing anti-Red, anti-Russian feeling, combined with general satisfaction with Grau's record, will be enough to put him in the Palace...
...have to be tolerant in this world, but out here you have to be especially tolerant or you choke with hate. Gee, it's easy to hate these guys, if you let yourself. They're so awful. Every one a heel, everyone a procurer, every one a talker. Look at them." Bemelmans remains tolerant often with what must be a superhuman effort, and the book keeps a delicate balance between friendly sympathy and sharp satire...