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Nation: The Oracle Down Under

As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator William Fulbright is in a unique position to know what is happening in the world—and manages to...

GERMANY: Oracle Speaks

"In Braunau am Inn there was born a man of humble, obscure parents, who in his time shook Germany and the world to their foundations, who already today belongs...

National Affairs: The Oracle

Of all the political oracles currently doing business, none is heeded more humbly than Pennsylvania's Governor John S. Fine. Reason: his tight control of the...

National Affairs: Navy's Oracle

Tall Ellis M. Zacharias, a Navy captain with a flair for the unorthodox, was one of the first skippers to go after the Japs, ended up as an intelligence officer,...

POLITICAL NOTES: The Oracle

As a political oracle, Harry Truman bows neither to man nor public-opinion poll. Last week, at his weekly press conference, the President cocked his head and...

National Affairs: Philippine Oracle

Colonel Carmi A. Thompson, suave among politicians, even more suave among business men, has become an oracle in the Philippines in less than a fortnight...

Thinking Like Apple, Oracle Buys Sun

Everybody has Apple envy — even Larry Ellison. The dashing playboy founded Oracle Corp., whose relational database software makes it the 137th largest company...

The Oracle of Organization

Every decade has its defining self-help business book. In the 1940s it was How to Win Friends and Influence People, in the 1990s The Seven Habits of Highly...

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