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...boyhood and his stock market coups. Biographer Coit labored with Baruch's blessing amid the "huge chaotic mass" of his papers, but they parted company in 1955 over questions of "interpretation." Her interpretation of Baruch's role as elder statesman is, in effect, that Baruch preferred to wield power indirectly without elective responsibility. He could hold down his famed park bench of authority without running for it every,,two, four or six years...
Unless Adenauer changed his mind at the eleventh hour, Erhard had achieved his long-cherished ambition to wield overall direction of the West German economy. Should he also land the vice-chancellorship, Erhard would emerge as the top Cabinet officer, increasing his ranking as possible successor to der Alte himself...
...Thirds of a Jeep. Petersen concedes that his campaign may not get anywhere "for a long time." Nevertheless, his magazines wield far-reaching influence. By popularizing cars with lower lines and such avant-garde gimmicks as fuel injection systems and dual exhausts, the magazines help stimulate demand for engineering and styling refinements in assembly-line autos (which are rigorously road-tested each year by the editors). In addition, Publisher Petersen, himself an auto mechanic's son, has been a major factor in building a new, $15 million-a-year market for manufacturers of esoteric auto accessories ranging from racing...
...that was about all the U.S. felt able to do last week about a gratuitous insult that rose out of a scrap among young Syrian army leftists, who currently wield power but do not have responsibility in Syria. They appear so unanimously bent on turning their country into the Middle East's first Soviet satellite that to hang a big lie on the U.S. is to score a point or two in the infighting. The army intelligence crowd, led by the mysterious left-winger, Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, 31, put out the plot story in an apparent effort...
...ruled this city like a king. Norman doesn't rule; he isn't interested in ruling. What he wants is to become an institution." Yet in a town where the Times is one of the few enduring institutions, Norman Chandler knows better than to try to wield an overpowering political club. Today's Los Angeles is too amorphous for one man to rule, one newspaper to command,* or even one political organization to anneal. The Times itself is conservative, and, says Chandler, proud of it. "But no one can force anybody down anybody else's throat...