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...have started in oil (and gained by the 27½% depletion allowance), much of it now comes from electronics, real estate, insurance or shipping. And for the new Texan, Texas is no longer big enough. Ranging across the nation like eager bird dogs, Texas businessmen are supplying capital, entrepreneurial vigor and acumen in nearly every area of the U.S. economy...
...Little Vigor. The testimony caused uneasy stirrings in London. It was pointed out that to have given the Nazis 10,000 trucks to use on the Russian front would have split the Allies just when Hitler was on the brink of collapse. In the face of tight-lipped official silence, the London Times stated that the Jews-for-trucks deal was rejected by Zionists as well as the Allies on the well-founded conviction that the Nazis could not be trusted: "Events soon hardened their suspicions. The extermination of Hungarian Jews was not halted for the two weeks that...
Wary Respect. But Kennedy's youthful vigor and far-ranging intelligence are clearly recognized and widely admired. Western Europeans, from the man in the street to the diplomat in the chancellery, support the truism that "a new man is entitled to a few mistakes." Much criticism is tempered by Kennedy's courageous willingness to shoulder the blame for errors committed...
...million over the next two decades, U.S.C. seeks a fast infusion of $30 million in four years and a 50% boost in endowment. From now on, vowed energetic President Norman H. Topping, a physician who took over in late 1958, the prescription for U.S.C. is "excellence with vigor and without compromise...
...month Topping got city approval to expand U.S.C.'s tight campus to a roomier 138 acres. This week he will dedicate two new medical buildings, costing $3,000,000. But more impressive than buildings is the lift in faculty morale. "Topping has infused the whole outfit with new vigor and direction." glows veteran English Professor Frank Baxter. "Now other schools are raiding our staff. That didn't happen before...