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Back in hot water with Republicans howling for his head, controversial Stew Udall called in the press, after first carefully stationing at his side venerable Poet Robert Frost, his luncheon guest, as a sort of mute character witness. Udall angrily denied that he had meant to bludgeon money from the oil and gasmen. He admitted that he was a good friend of Evans', an official of Asiatic Petroleum Co., an affiliate of the Royal Dutch Shell group. But, said Udall, all that he had done was to tell Evans casually that he hoped...
...this patchy, fast-paced comic novel, Irish-Scottish Honor Tracy emerges as a satirist wielding bludgeon and scalpel in defense of the Establishment-that in domitable, mutual-aid group of clergy, big business and old school ties who rule Britain, no matter who wins the elections. Her hero, a proper and rather priggish young Briton named Henry Lamb, is sent to Trinidad in the West Indies as correspondent of Torch, a lit'ry weekly "that's going to teach us all to live." In Trinidad, gushes Torch's lisping editor, "the dwegs and outcasts of the community...
...staid Boston Herald stirred up the biggest tempest with an editorial, "Arts Festival Bludgeon," followed by an avalanche (poorly reasoned, for the most part) of letters to the editor, and another editorial. The first editorial accused the Festival of intentionally "propagandizing" abstractionism, and quoted in support of its stand some remarks by its art critic, Robert Taylor. Internecine strife resulted when Taylor, in hearty disagreement with the editorial, had to have recourse to the letters column in order to disassociate himself from his paper's policy...
...Dubious Bludgeon. As the British first conceived it, the Outer Seven could be used as a bludgeon to force the Common Market nations to abandon their tariff discrimination against the rest of Europe. But last week, as the Outer Seven deposited the articles of ratification in Stockholm and became a formal reality. Swedish Commerce Minister Gunnar Lange glumly conceded that prospects of bringing about a wider association between the Outer Seven and the Inner Six "do not seem very bright...
...year-old nymphet, daughter of a well-to-do Hamden, Conn, family, named them as her partners (along with 20 others) in a dormitory sex orgy. And the respected dean of Louisiana State University's graduate school, a scientist of world renown, was arrested and charged with the bludgeon murder of a woman biologist...