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...night on the town. In another, Joey Bishop is discovered in flagrante delicto by his outraged mate. "What bed? What girl?" he replies. While his wife shrieks, he calmly cleans up the room, whisks the girl out, then settles down to read in the living room. Faced with his bland denials, the wife begins to wonder whether it was all an illusion, weakly wilts "What do you want for dinner...
...start of his highly organized career he has concentrated his genius for aerospace production on a comparatively few products. But next month, by merging his company with Douglas Aircraft, he will become boss of one of the nation's most impressively diversified aerospace manufacturers. In an era of bland corporate management, he insists on ruling his 20th century aeronautical beehive like a 19th century industrial barony. His warm paternalism is flavored with benevolent despotism; he customarily sends a pair of baby shoes when an employee becomes a parent but frowns on an employee leaving the plant for lunch...
Reaction to the New Utopia among "straight" San Franciscans has been remarkably bland. "They only steal if they're hungry," shrugs one Haight Street grocer. "I'd do the same." One of the district's most sympathetic observers is the Rev. Leon Harris, 60, pastor of The Haight-Ashbury's All Saints' Episcopal Church, whose favorite anecdote concerns a stuffy woman parishioner who came in to complain of the New Utopians. Says Harris: "I told her to take a careful look at the church windows. She gasped when she realized that the saints, too, wore...
There is absolutely nothing in the writings of the democratic Left in America (what Miss McVeigh calls the "Old Left") to suggest a "bland acceptance of the welfare state." If we decline to follow the New Left in total denunciation of the New Deal--a denunciation which often sounds familiarly like that of the extreme Right--we nevertheless feel that democratic participation must expand as well as welfare measures. When Michael Harrington calls for a "3rd New Deal," he is talking about "social investment a conscious and political allocation of resources to meet public needs" (his own words), not-just...
...establish relations, ran the advice, they at least ought to support East Germany in rejecting Bonn's claim to be the sole legitimate representative of the German people. The pleas did not have much effect, and the communiqueé issued at the meeting's end was so bland that it did not even mention the central issue of Germany. The Warsaw meeting revealed an intriguing pattern of disintegration in what used to be the Communist bloc. >Russia, which is having enough troubles with Red China, is angry at the Ulbricht regime for its attack on Rumania, which forced...