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Strategic Planning. Throughout the session, Burma's U Thant, the man who finally was chosen to take over Hammarskjold's vacant post, performed his difficult task admirably. In the Congo crisis, he was tough and fast on his feet; his quiet diplomacy helped get Indonesia and The Netherlands to agree to negotiate the West New Guinea dispute. Along with respected President Slim, U Thant kept the Assembly serious and businesslike; in many ways, delegates found him more decisive than...
...moved into the office left vacant last month by the death of J. Spencer Love, Burlington Industries' candid new President Charles F. Myers, 50, made it plain that the era of one-man rule had ended for the world's largest textile empire (1961 sales: $866 million). Says Myers in a rich Charleston accent: "No one will take the load that Mr. Love took. Management from now on will be a team operation." Lured away from a banking career during a series of tennis games with Love 15 years ago. Myers started off at Burlington as a financial...
...find there the love, the soul, the vital core of meaning he has lost? He finds the daughter of the millionaire (Monica Vitti), a dark-haired charmer whom he fiercely pursues, only to find her as empty and desperate as he is. "At heart," she tells him with a vacant smile, "I'm just a girl who likes golf." Dimly he begins to understand that something is dreadfully wrong with...
Although the "right of first refusal" was granted several years ago, Mt. Auburn officials had not expressed any interest in the property for a long time. In addition, the Hospital still has two Soors vacant in a recently completed addition to its main building...
...Asia. Even sophisticated New York had its worriers, some of whom called the Hayden Planetarium for reassurance. In Southern California, western capital of cockeyed cults, local astrologers did their best business in years. Like their Indian colleagues, they predicted natural and unnatural disasters. One woman repaired to a vacant lot and pitched a tent furnished with a time capsule containing, among other necessities, a ten-dollar bill. A group from Santa Cruz fled to the Arizona mountain hamlet of Cleator, sure they had chosen one of the twelve places on earth that would be spared by the onrushing disaster...