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...France, where he found only one convert to rattle around in "a great spiritual vacuum," Evangelist Billy Graham had a little chat with SHAPE'S General Dwight D. Eisenhower. The general, Graham was relieved to discover, approved of religion. Ike, he reported, told him: "We must have...
...attractive Evelyn Trujillo, 28, was a stenographer in the Caracas offices of the Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. After hours she had a more interesting job as an underground courier for Acción Democratica, the big left-of-center party that has been outlawed in Venezuela since the ruling military junta seized power three years...
...Nelson's empty hand, nonetheless, Novelist Paul (The Sheltering Sky) Bowles has tried to create a modern hero. Dyar is not a man, he is a vacuum. His only deep desire is to fill his own emptiness. He throws up his job as a New York bank teller, takes ship to Tangier, and waits for things to happen to him-any things, so long as they are solid enough to give him the feeling of being in touch with reality...
...cool, logical recesses of their minds, Frenchmen knew they had neither the resources nor manpower to fill a European vacuum left by an unarmed Germany. They could not even defend themselves. The cream of their army (about 170,000 men) is in Indo-China. They have been able to supply the men and the equipment for only five of the ten divisions they were supposed to have ready for NATO by this year. The remaining five had only half their quota...
Jennings shares command with Chairman Holton, a onetime $5-a-month law clerk who became general counsel of Vacuum Oil Co., another result of the trustbusting, and moved into 26 Broadway in 1931, when Socony and Vacuum merged. Jennings' hobby is woodworking. When he discovered that Chairman Holton's gavel was missing, he took an old table leg and turned him a new one on his lathe. The gavel is used sparingly, for both men rule Socony largely by committee (the board and the four-man executive committee) ; it is too large to do otherwise...