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...Wild West gunfighter endures, though an hombre who traditionally hates kissin' and gets his kicks by digging spurs into horseflesh seems equally ill-adapted to the times. The exquisitely contemporary hero is girl-happy, gadget-minded James Bond, whose legend has already tempted a host of imitators to bland larceny. Now five new spy spoofs reverently ape Bond, with more a-making to catch the rich financial fallout from Goldfinger and Thunderball...
Blind Spot. Bland persistence is the hallmark of the Arkansas Democrat, who was once denounced by Harry Truman as "that overeducated Oxford s.o.b." But though onetime Rhodes Scholar Fulbright, 60, has long been described as an enigma, the trait that has made him a Senate storm center for two decades is not hard to define...
Though the Georgetown cocktail circuit buzzes almost weekly with rumors that the Secretary of State is on his way out, Lyndon Johnson has always deeply respected the bland, imperturbable Rusk, feels a personal kinship with him because of his Georgian drawl and tenant-farm origins. "He is No. 1 in the Cabinet," said Johnson, when Rusk came under attack last summer in Arthur M. Schlesinger's history of the Kennedy Administration, "and he is No. 1 with...
...Gaulle, purple with rage, summoned his Cabinet to a table-thumping session and aired the whole matter. When the Cabinet proposed a bland communiqué, De Gaulle seized the draft and wrote out the harsh facts himself for the world to hear: that though it was "organized abroad," the kidnaping "had been brought off with the complicity of agents of French special services or police." Insisting that "justice be done," De Gaulle sacked Counterespionage Chief Paul Jacquier. S.D.E.C.E. itself was transferred from the authority of the Premier's office to the Defense Ministry, and a complete reorganization...
...Bland Tradition. Now Professor Claude R. Hitchcock, a member of Dr. Wangensteen's own surgery faculty, reports that the Wangensteen treatment is not much good. At best, says Dr. Hitchcock in the Journal of the A.M.A., it is no better than traditional medical management of duodenal ulcers-meaning antacid pills and a bland diet...