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Bowles really did get the point when friends reminded him of two news stories by the President's good friends Columnist Joe Alsop and the Chattanooga Times's Charlie Bartlett, which detailed Bowles's difficulties. The stories, plus the lunch, could only mean he was being fired. As soon as he got sore, Bowles proved to be no pushover. With familiar Madison Avenue skill, he and his pals leaked a spate of stories on the sinister plot to send him into exile. Their catchy, if misleading pitch: "It will be a curious result if the first head...
...Among them Columnists Stewart Alsop and John Crosby, steamship-banking-airline Tycoon J. Peter Grace Jr., Princeton Dean J. Merrill Knapp, M.I.T. Professor Walt Rostow (now a White House adviser...
...spring's run of films shot in Europe (Mein Kampf, Kanal, The Bridge) has been about as jolly as the" spring's run of speeches at the disarmament talks. But for viewers who can let Joe Alsop take the hindmost, the summer's imports promise to be less apocalyptic. Three new comedies for those with sense enough to come in out of the reality...
Breakdown in the Cadres. On a stopover in Hong Kong, Columnist Joseph Alsop, who rarely finds much to encourage him, listened to the latest stories from refugees trickling out of Red China and detected signs of "a breakdown of the iron, super-Spartan discipline which the Chinese Communists enforced with such astonishing success during their first twelve years in power." The dedication and austerity of the party cadres were once the party's pride, and officials boasted that the Communists had at last freed China from the ancient practice of "squeeze" and bribery. Under the pressure of famine, Alsop...
...food riots have become fairly common, and so have raids by hungry villagers on the carefully locked-up communal grain stores. The police-enforced compliant silence of the people is being broken, too. Bitter rhymes and slogans mocking the Communists are now quite often reported by refugees." Concluded Columnist Alsop: "The breakdown of discipline must mean that the conditions are beginning to exist in which a small spark can light a gigantic fire...