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Just when Kennedy was trying to calm the business community,* Solicitor General Archibald Cox betook himself back to Harvard for a speech calculated to make any businessman blanch with dismay. His message: a way must be found to bring Government into wage-and-price-making decisions on a regular basis and at ''a fairly early stage" in the process. It may be enough for now that the Government "make known, widely and forcefully, the general policies that it thinks would advance the public interest." said Cox, but "there are a number of reasons for thinking that...
Observe the sky begin to blanch...
...years, a sure way to make any flag officer blanch in dismay has been to suggest that Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover, father of the nuclear submarine, might become Chief of Naval Operations. He never will. But in idol-smashing testimony released last week by a House subcommittee on defense appropriations, he demonstrated what a lively tour of duty he would have...
...Bite on Boldly." Violence is vivid in the mysteries; Herod's soldiers slaughter three infants onstage, and even modern audiences blanch at green-faced, gloating Satan hissing among the writhing sinners before pitchforking them through the fanged jaws of Hell. Biblical characters have a buttonholing immediacy, like doddering, officious Noah, who groans...
...Sabres of Paradise, by Lesley Blanch. A true Arabian Nights tale of 19th century Russia's subjugation of unruly Caucasus tribesmen, replete with high-bouncing feats of battlefield and seraglio...