Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last month Premier Eyskens was abruptly summoned to the palace and told that Leopold's youngest son in the royal line, Albert, 25, was going to marry Paola Ruffo di Calabria, 21, one of the prettiest of a clutch of pretty Italian princesses. Everybody thought the girl a catch, but because royal marriages are affairs of state demanding government deliberation and approval, the Cabinet again felt itself insulted, ignored and affronted. Three days later, Pope John XXIII announced in Rome that he would perform the marriage himself at the Vatican, and let it be understood that there would...
...proposal, as leaked from the office of Finance Minister Rufo Lopez Fresquet, was so zany that the Cuban press thought somebody was pulling its leg: anyone mentioned in the Cuban social register or newspaper society pages would have to pay a tax for the honor. The bite would be $1 per mention, plus $1 for each flattering adjective. Titles of nobility would be taxed $100, and photographs $10 per column inch. For collecting the tax, the newspapers would be allowed to keep 25% of the take. Going along with the gag, Prensa Libre used up seven adjectives in describing Minister...
...cataclysmic end, after which God, ancestors, or some future hero will appear and establish a new order of things. In World War II, both sides benefited from this. G.I.s landing in the New Hebrides before taking Guadalcanal found the natives preparing airfields, roads and docks for the cargoes they thought were coming on magic ships and planes from the King of America, the potent Ruseful (Roosevelt). The Japanese were received by the Papuans of Dutch New Guinea with joy as harbingers of the new dispensation, but when it did not materialize, the Japanese had an uprising on their hands that...
...mind to the problems of heavy industry. Reserved in manner, quiet in speech, he runs Big Steel's $3.7 billion empire and its 230,000 employees with an almost academic air. "Blough," says one steelman, "is a real, warm, likable IBM machine." Unlike former Chairman Benjamin Fairless, who thought one of the ways to labor peace was to tour plants with Union Boss David McDonald, Blough believes in separation of management and labor. Grouses one union leader: "Blough is a man you don't get to know much about. He stays in his ivory tower...
...thought it wouldn't happen here.'' groaned a Swiss banker last week. ''But the whole world seems to be caught by a frenzy of speculation. If this goes on. something serious is bound to happen pretty soon." On Zurich's conservative and cosmopolitan Effektenborse. stock prices moved sharply up and down. Alpine fashion, and many an unsavvy investor plunged in with gusto. "For the first time." said another stiff-lipped Zurich banker, "our market is pulling in the barbers, the bakers and the waiters...