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...ICBMs more than offset by a larger U.S. deterrent, with its huge land army muscle-bound and deprived of global mobility in the middle of the great Eurasian land mass, Russia has turned to the sea to break out of its own geographic confines and attempt to wield truly global power...
...until much later. Singer Sewing Machine Corp was sinking the same way in the 1950s says Jay, until Donald Kircher moved in as president and began reviving it. Jay can find a historical analogy for almost everything about the modern corporation. "The boss's secretary," he observes, "can wield great power, like the king's mistress, without any authority at all or at least not the sort you can show anybody...
...robber barons of the '20s, who manipulated markets for their own gain. But while their motives are proper enough, and their actions usually beneficial, Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin, the apolitical conscience of the nation's economy, has warned that the managers of the institutions wield a potentially dangerous amount of market influence...
...enterprise, and a demanding boss with a reputation for firmness and hard work. Sworn in last week as Australia's 19th Prime Minister-succeeding the late Harold Holt, who drowned last month off Portsea (TIME, Dec. 29)-Gorton is also very much his own man. He will probably wield a stronger, more decisive leadership than Holt and bend slightly to the left in his domestic policy, pushing for more government-aided health services, larger old-age pensions and a more decisive federal voice in state affairs...
Another junior sabre man, Ron Winfield, has speed and smooth technique but lacks bout experience. Senior John Gersh and sophomore Tony Abbott will wield their weapons at Holy Cross, but they will have to prove themselves in pre-Ivy bouts to crack the starting lineup...