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...lopsided 354 to 9. In the face of all this backing, it was hard to tell just what the filibustering liberals were distressed about. Senator Kefauver called the bill a "monstrous giveaway." Some objectors voiced fears that the satellite corporation would be dominated by already huge American Telephone & Telegraph Co., sponsor of Telstar−although the bill specifies that no private firm could elect more than three of the new corporation's 15 directors...
...those questioned approved of Macmillan's infusion of youth into the Cabinet. Yet an increasing number of Britons also felt that the 68-year-old Prime Minister should have added his own name to the list of ministers fired for "tiredness." The new Cabinet, cracked the Sunday Telegraph, "is, so to speak, the New Frontier-under Eisenhower." In just nine days, the number of those who professed dissatisfaction with Macmillan himself had risen from 39% to 52%. Only once before in Britain had a Gallup poll ever found a majority dissatisfied with a Prime Minister-in the dark days...
...fund in his early 30s, and now becomes economic secretary to the Treasury; Nigel Fisher, 49, one of the few Tories to denounce the government's bill restricting Commonwealth immigration, who becomes parliamentary under secretary to the Colonial Office. The appointments "have made it clear," concluded the Daily Telegraph, "that there is room for brains...
...state of Rio Grande do Sul and is an aide and confidant to Leonel Brizola, the state's rabble-rousing, far-left governor. Brochado da Rocha himself was a key man in the expropriation last February of Rio Grande's $7,000,000 U.S.-owned International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. subsidiary. Still, sensing the public unrest, the conservatives were willing to take Brochado da Rocha and did not object even when he called for a plebiscite to return Brazil to a strong presidential system...
...Sellout. Founded by Swedish Tinkerer Lars Magnus Ericsson 86 years ago, Ericsson Telephone has had a troubled history: Super-Swindler Ivar Krueger, who got control of the company in the late 1920s, sold off his interest in 1931 to Ericsson's archrival, the U.S.'s International Telephone & Telegraph Co. This evoked patriotic outcries in Sweden and led to the intervention of the brothers Marcus and Jacob Wallenberg, who between them head the boards of 24 Swedish companies with combined sales of $1.6 billion. Aided by a law that prohibits foreign control of Swedish firms, Marcus Wallenberg, 62, stepped...