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...African culture "without resort to such subterfuge as changing their patronymics." Besides, he went on, Middleton is "a fine American name." Despite the decision, the future teacher is determined to get court approval for becoming Kikuga Nairobi Kikugis. He hopes to find a more receptive judge than Irving Smith-whose immigrant forebears' name was changed when they came from Poland...
...newspapers noted solemnly: the "Pepsi-Cola Company cannot in good conscience offer its customers any products about which even the remotest doubt exists." The ad urged that "other soft-drink companies . . . follow Pepsi-Cola's lead in developing cyclamate-free beverages." Mary Wells Lawrence, the adwoman whose agency had just completed a new campaign for Royal Crown's Diet Rite when the ban was announced, claims that she had little trouble adjusting to a non-cyclamate new version being introduced this week. "Either we're terribly intuitive or somebody up there loves us," she said...
...returned to power. Las Vegas Financier Kirk Kerkorian, who a month ago won control of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, picked him to be the company's new president to replace Louis ("Bo") Polk Jr., 39, who was fired. Polk had been chosen only last January by Edgar M. Bronfman, whose 16% holding in the company was the largest until Kerkorian bought roughly a 40% share for about $100 million. (Time Inc. owns 5%.) Bronfman and one of three other directors representing his interests quit the 19-man board last week...
...internationally, is not likely to be a single world empire but a concert of empires. All of which at least will have a good chance of avoiding nuclear war (the "least immediate" of Berle's fears). A good empire, by Berle's definition, is simply a superpower whose neighbors and client states can be free as long as they do not threaten the superpower's safety, as Cuba threatened America's in 1962. Empires are built on fear, not greed; and if their fears are minimized, Berle asserts, their economic influence will fade into the larger...
...intolerable as he thinks. His analysis of power is a great deal more congenial to the American mind than Machiavelli's, which separated power from ethics. In outlining a basis for the post-modern world. Berle makes clear that power succeeds only with the help of philosophers, whose task is to cause man to agree on ideas of good and evil...