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Greenberg concedes that Del Vayo doesn't always find Russia blameless, "yet somehow he always calls upon the West to take the first step-and make the first concession-to assure peace." In such matters as the unification of Germany, the Korean war, the Chinese Communists, the United Nations debate on Red China, Greenberg says Del Vayo is guilty of "special and specious pleading on behalf of the U.S.S.R...
...room and misbehaved with him. Her cover story: the man did the inviting and then tried unsuccessfully to seduce her. A 22-year-old secretary told how she used to pose as a nude model for artists who made passes at her. Her cover: she only posed for blameless photographers, and never in the nude...
...comes to it by a tedious route in a pretty lumbering conveyance. The Scotland Yard man furthermore insists on going over every inch of the way; and the lovers, both of whom are understandably suspect, become understandably and loquaciously suspicious of each other. The whole thing is blameless enough. But it remains a terribly staid, genteel British whodunit that almost never sets the brain aracing, the spine atingle or the mouth agape...
...well aware of the problem, said Perón, and could appreciate the housewives' concern. But he wanted to point out that the housewives themselves were not entirely blameless. On his way to work every morning, he noticed with dismay the amount of garbage piled up on city doorsteps. "Argentines," he said, "throw one and a half million head of cattle into the garbage can every year . . . It is easy to see that the bread and meat thrown away daily in Buenos Aires would easily feed any European city for a week...
...airline men at Asbury Park asked for more information about the roaring jet streams, but chances are that official meteorologists may not tell all they know. A few years ago, meteorology was a blameless business of predicting sunny days for picnics. Now it is deeply tied up with military interests. The first air power that learns to make accurate forecasts of the location, speed and direction of the jet streams will have a powerful ad vantage over its adversaries. A fleet of long-distance bombers riding on a stream could carry their bombs hundreds of miles beyond normal range...