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Observing Unruh's rise to power, Pat Brown has begun to show signs of anxiety. Last week he nervously summoned members of the Praetorian Guard to the mansion to warn them that he would not necessarily go along with Unruh's plan to take over the speakership. But what Big Daddy wants, Big Daddy usually gets-and what he wants is the speakership as a means of extending his political rule over the entire state...
...better clean its house. To Ford's message, said Carey, "we say amen and Godspeed." Seated on the stage with the other directors, Ford flushed, as if not wishing to be reminded of what he had said. A woman shareholder joined in: "I thought I'd better warn Henry to keep his safety belt fastened," she said. "His wings are sprouting...
Both Miss Hellman and William Alfred, professor of English, challenged such optimism. Alfred, who advocated federal subsidies, went on to warn against such aid when extended "with strings attached." Miss Hellman felt that the plays chosen for the current tour had been handpicked "for their 'safe' qualities." She likened this to Broadway's gearing all its productions toward critical acclaim...
When the going gets rough on the overcrowded floor of the New York Stock Exchange, brokers with any ailments-sprained shoulders, sunburns or broken arms-pin red crosses on sleeve or back to warn off scurrying colleagues. Last week even brokers thus armed could hardly avoid a jostling. In furious trading inspired by the new bull market, volume on the exchange in one day leaped to 7,080,000 shares, highest mark in 5½ years. The tape ran late so often that the warning clock that signals the tape's tardiness was lit for hours at a stretch...
...served variously as assistant director of M.I.T.'s wartime Radiation Laboratory, board chairman of the prestigious Rand Corp. and president of the Ford Foundation, a powerful but little known administrator until he took center stage in 1957 with ' his controversial, still secret "Gaither Report," said to warn of perilous deficiencies in U.S. defenses; of lung cancer; in Boston...