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...party as modern Mexico's well-scrubbed Sears. Roebuck stores are from a battlefield commissary. An attorney, ópez Mateos moved up smoothly in the P.R.I.'s inner circle after going to work in 1930 as secretary to General Carlos Riva Palacio, then the party's titular head. As Labor Minister, López Mateos settled 13,382 disputes with only a handful of strikes. A hard worker, he took his smooth, noncommittal speeches and pleasant grin to 480 towns during a campaign that he could have won by staying home...
...ready with a bill to set up, in accordance with the constitution, Houses of Chiefs to act as advisers to the government. When the bill becomes law, the Asantehene will lose his absolute power to make and break his own vassal chiefs. He will be merely the titular head of an advisory body more impotent than Britain's House of Lords...
...tired of pious preaching from Sherman Adams," said titular Party Leader Adlai Stevenson on the eve of his trip to Moscow. "This is not the only example of hypocrisy in the Administration." Florida's Senator George Smathers and Michigan's presidential hopeful, Governor "Soapy" Williams, solemnly echoed the hypocrisy issue...
...Elite. No one better symbolizes the status of the Russian scientist than Aleksandr Nesmeyanov, 58, president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and titular head of all Russian science. The son of a school principal, he became a distinguished chemist in his own right, headed the University of Moscow during the period when its skyscraper (39 stories) campus became the tallest structure in Europe east of the Eiffel Tower. With his wife, who was once one of his students, Nesmeyanov has a spacious apartment near the academy and a sizable dacha outside of town. Though a member of the party...
Devices of this general type have been developed in the U.S., Britain Russia, and probably other countries. Titular chief of such research for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission is Dr. Arthur E. Ruark, 57. His job is to ride herd on projects in progress at Princeton, Livermore (Calif.), Los Alamos and other scientific centers. Probably the most ambitious of these is centered at Princeton. Its chief is Professor Lyman Spitzer Jr., 43, an astronomer who got into thermonuclear physics because the interiors of the stars are convenient test tubes for observing what happens at very high temperatures. Stars need...