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...sincere, low-keyed reavowal of U.S. dedication to the cause of peace, without any headline-catching promises of bold new breakthroughs. And afterward, at a reception, Johnson wowed the delegates with a virtuoso display of his handshaking techniques. Those techniques are really a modern marvel-Lyndon is equally adept at shaking two people's hands at the same time, or shaking one person's hand with both of his, or shaking a hand while patting an elbow or a shoulder, or using the handshake to hurry someone past him in the reception line. After viewing the performance...
...naval attache, Admiral Alberto Lais, was so scuppered by her that he surrendered the code with hardly a murmur. Italian apologists maintain that Lais, who died in 1951, was actually so ungallant as to give his mistress a fake cipher book. Undeniably, however, British Intelligence thereafter proved uncannily adept at forestalling Italian fleet movements, notably in the March 1941 sea battle off Greece's Cape Matapan, where the Royal Navy crippled Italy's numerically superior force...
Prosperity's wand seems to have touched almost every kind of business man in the Common Market - even the smugglers. Europeans have always been adept at slipping all sorts of contraband across their tangle of national boundaries, but the smugglers were usually small-time dealers in such items as coffee and cigarettes. Today's smugglers are sophisticated businessmen who shun 50 lbs. of coffee in favor of 50 tons of steel, or deal in complex electronic calculators rather than cigarettes. Nowhere in Europe do these "white-collar smugglers" thrive more than in West Germany, where harassed customs officials...
Most of the book reviewing done in the past century was outright puffery. Fields was especially adept at planting puffs. He would write reviews himself and mail them to editors ("It may serve your tired brain some purpose. No one need know that I wrote it"), or he would ease a reviewer's critical burden by explaining that "the moral of the story lies at the bottom of page 168." Journals in which Fields advertised were expected to discover rare qualities in Fields's authors, but on one notable occasion the system of back-scratching broke down...
Since he is adept in French, Italian, German and Spanish ("and I'm beginning to understand Swedish after seeing 20 Bergman films"), he rarely has to read subtitles on foreign films-except to criticize the accuracy of the translation. For this week's cover story he had the reporting of TIME correspondents in practically every city where films are made to supplement his own critical viewing of virtually every foreign and domestic film of consequence in the past decade. Working with Senior Editor William Forbis, he aimed to produce not only a good story but a sensitive guide...