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...little evidence that their authors are drunk with gratitude for their hosts. After General Motors' 1962 fete, New York Times Automotive Editor Joseph Ingraham filed a story accusing Chevrolet of plagiarizing the competition. Says Chrysler's public relations man William Stempien: "Most of the guys lean over backward to show how independent they...
...bait sideways in its jaws, neatly avoiding the hook, then spit it back into the water with what seems a shrug of disgust. Skilled fishermen sometimes try to trick a white marlin onto the hook by "racing" the bait (skipping it swiftly along the surface), then suddenly dropping it backward as the openmouthed fish approaches. Even that tactic often fails. "Ain't nothing in the ocean so hard to outguess as a marlin," says one Ocean City charter-boat captain. "All I've learned in 15 years is never to expect no favors from them...
...brought with him three tons of telephone equipment, for the "hot line" that is to link the White House and the Kremlin in emergencies. At the first meeting, Harriman, 71, was greeted by Khrushchev with a cheery "You're absolutely blooming. What are you doing, counting your years backward?" When Britain's top envoy, Viscount Hailsham, said that Moscow's weather was better than London's, Khrushchev replied: "We could perhaps find some place for you here. You could be an internee...
Since it knows no sense of sin, and hence no reprisal for error, it is, at least by Western standards, passive, backward and neutral. Buddhism, says Theologian Paul Tillich, "gives no decisive motives for social transformation, and thus provides a nonpolitical opportunity for an invasion of Buddhist East Asia by the Communist quasi-religion with its hope for a transformed world." Although the Red Chinese are wooing the Buddhists everywhere, there is no real evidence so far that the Reds are using South Viet Nam's Buddhists, as the Diem government charges. On the other hand, Diem...
...government and the Negro leaders granted concessions to the other side in an effort to reach a workable accord and in so doing exercised an encouraging amount of good sense; the violence has been put aside and the Eastern Shore community is evidently on its way to reshaping its backward civil rights posture...