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...Bide a While...
...World War II vets turned out to be a dud. Very much in the minority (with only 20% of the voting strength), the youngsters talked like their elders and produced nothing more than a distant threat to the middle-aged hierarchy. World War II vets were content to bide their time. By next October they hope to comprise 80% of the Legion's membership...
Tangible Assets. But the Russians could afford to bide their time. They had tangible assets. There was popular King Mihai, who, with Marshal Tito, is the only Balkan leader to receive the exalted Soviet Order of Victory medal. There was Premier Peter Groza, Soviet stooge and physical culture enthusiast, whose family remains in his native Transylvania while he lives with his mistress in Bucharest. There were the only two divisions of Rumanian troops repatriated, after proper indoctrination, from Russia. They constituted an incipient praetorian guard...
Duncan Norton-Taylor is a home-lover's Quentin Reynolds. Correspondent Reynolds is 6 ft. i in. tall, weighs 220 lb., dines with generals, calls everybody by his first name, and gives the bide-at-home a keen sense of participation in great and dangerous affairs. Correspondent Norton-Taylor is 5 ft. 4 in. tall, weighs 130 lb., is surprised if a major is nice to him, is frightened by clouds, prefers fingers to cotton in his ears when any firing is going on, and in general gives an endearing sense of what most fighters want most...
...smoker also disclosed the presence in our midst of another talented double-talker in the person of Sidney Resnik, who served beautifully as a stooge for the fog-horn-voiced Benjamin. The dialogue between A.A. (Rita) Addington and O.K. (Olivia) Bovard brought down the house and Lt. (jg) T.W. (Bide Crab) Bradley with it. That last remark involving the distribution of naval responsibility and its various ramifications was unanimously elected as the climax crack of the evening...