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Cynthia Kaye of the Canadian Broadcasting Company asks a question. She has a cigarette holder. false eyelashes, a handbag, heels, red hair, and a beartrap mind...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: At the Gates of God-Drunk but Unafraid | 11/12/1969 | See Source »

Assembly on the Spot. All day and all night the grappling went on. Mendès took a nap on the cot in his office, then, tugging at his rumpled suit, returned to the floor to fight his way out of an old beartrap of French politics-the "war of resolutions." By attaching crippling resolutions to a government motion, the Assembly often evades a decision or makes futile a government proposition. Mendès found himself fighting more than a dozen of them. As a favor to the Europeans, he agreed to one that expressed a "desire to continue with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Show of Doubt | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...from a small-town high school principal who "had a knack of making himself liked and thought he would make a good university president." The Regents swung around the country, interviewed some 50 educators, found none both suitable and willing to put his head in Washington's political beartrap. University of Chicago's Dean George Alan Works was interested last autumn until Governor Martin vetoed a bill to help take the University out of politics by forbidding the Governor to juggle the Board of Regents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hugo, Gobsie & Beartrap | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

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