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There were hints supporting earlier speculation that the Administration would now be more receptive to the prescriptions of liberal economists for unemployment and inflation. Treasury Secretary David Kennedy had generally taken a conservative tack in fiscal affairs. In Boston last week, he sounded positively benign about the large amount of red ink that is accumulating for the current budget year. Now he talked about "the kind of deficit that will start us back to growth...
Mamma (Fran Lopate) plays her wordless role with the benign warmth of melted mozzarella. The ageless Mediterranean resignation on Jack's face is so perfect that it is hard to believe he can look any other way. Two weeks ago, he took an ad in the show-business trade journal, Variety, showing him grinning. The headline asks: WHO'S THE GUY IN THE ALKA-SELTZER COMMERCIAL? IT'S JACK SOMACK...
...Years of Triumph covers the early years of Frost's fame in England and the United States, up to the death of his wife in 1938. It describes without malice or apparent prejudice several incidents which indicate that Frost was not a benign simple rustic writing pure-hearted doggerel, but rather an impatient, frequently lazy, hyperbolic man. The reviewers were furious. Some treated the book as a personal insult. One almost-yellow journal reduced its reaction to a sixteen-point print blare, "A good poet-but a very...
Patient Mediator For much of his life, Nasser was an in corrigible conspirator, and his enemies were never benign. Former Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion said last week...
...much enforced, may be too little too late. None of these suggestions are aimed, for example, at discrimination in awards, promotions and battle field assignments. And for many blacks, nothing short of an end to hostilities in South-east Asia can make any sense while the White House exercises "benign neglect of the racial issue" and ignores black needs and while Southern police continue to eliminate black problems with gunfire...