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∙An experienced operations man was what the Sinclair Oil Corp. wanted-and what it got last week by naming President Edward L. Steiniger, 58, as chief executive officer, succeeding P. C. Spencer, 67. Steiniger made his reputation in the tough Venezuelan fields, where during one three-year period (1941...
(2 of 10) diversions and the Janizary music of loud-voiced enterprises to keep lonely thoughts away." Yet all the noise is in vain: "No Grand Inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety, and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing...
This leads to a kind of compulsory freedom that encourages people not only to ignore their limitations but to defy them: the dominant myth is that the old can grow young, the indecisive can become leaders of men. the housewives can become glamour girls, the glamour girls can become actresses...
None of the secondary parts require such virtuosity, but each of the minor actors has his own excellence. Jacques Charon, as a dim-witted, oafish servant manages to steal a scene even from Hirsch; Michel Aumont, an old miser, and Rene Camoin, an old wheezer, are unsurpassable; Micheline Boudet, believed...
In Paris, Bourguiba will presumably caution De Gaulle to give some sort of recognition to the F.L.N. as a disciplined and worthy opponent-perhaps through a private meeting with the F.L.N.'s Ferhat Abbas, where assurances can be exchanged. What the moment calls for is someone skillful enough to...