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...West Coast was on a rampage again, and football's experts were tearing up their form charts. On successive Saturdays, Southern California trampled Duke, Southern Methodist and Iowa. Washington tied cocky Purdue and crushed Illinois. Upstart Stanford, which has not had a winning season for four years, slipped past Tulane and then beat mighty Michigan State. Still smarting from its 21-3 Rose Bowl defeat last New Year's Day, U.C.L.A. got ample revenge by toppling Ohio State from its lofty perch atop the nation's college ratings. When the dust settled last week, the underrated Westerners...
Macmillan's action was triggered by last week's by-election at North-East Leicester, where the Conservative candidate ran a poor third with 6,578 votes, beaten not only by the victorious Laborite (11,274) but also by the upstart Liberal (9,326), who was making his party's first bid for the seat in twelve years. For several months, Macmillan has been going down to his ministerial estate at Chequers to brood in solitude over the long succession of by-elections in which Conservatives suffered severe setbacks. Day after the North-East Leicester election, Macmillan...
...Memos. In this withering atmosphere of retreat and retrenchment, a brawny upstart is defying the trend. It is MCA Inc., the sprawling talent agency that controls a majority of Hollywood's biggest stars* and is thus largely responsible for the astronomical salaries they have forced on the older studios. MCA has grandly announced plans to "revitalize the film industry." Founded by dapper Jules Stein 38 years ago, MCA has long dictated casting to producers with "package deals" in which a buyer takes a mixed bag of stars and shows in order to get a few good ones...
...lured business from competing Beirut banks by cutting loan rates from 9% to 6%. To gain stature for his upstart bank, he convinced Bank of America that it should come into his trade-financing op erations, became correspondent for New York's venerable Chase Manhattan Bank, and opened branches in Syria, Iraq, Qatar and Jordan. In 1958, when near civil war halted Lebanese banking for more than three months and most of his competitors sat brooding over their ill fortune, Bedas took advantage of the lull to set up a branch in London and an affiliate bank in Geneva...
...While working in Washington on the U.S. budget, for example, Harvard Economist X runs into Minnesota Economist Y, who reports that Stanford Economist Z is sick of "dull" Palo Alto. Presto, X is on the phone to a close Yale friend, who jumps at the chance to sabotage those "upstart Californians." Yale grabs Stanford's Z-precisely what Z himself hoped for when he told Minnesota's Y his troubles. In return, thin-blooded Y may well quit frosty Minnesota to take over Z's job at sunny Stanford. Both Y and Z knew, of course, that...