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...mystified and slightly hostile silence, as if they did not understand the newcomer and hardly cared. "A homogeneous mixture of merits and cunning," cabled the Washington correspondent of Le Monde in a recent attempt to translate Johnson into Gallic terms. In L'Express, Editorial Cartoonist Tim was even blunter...
...signee, who asked that his name not be used, was blunter. "Harvard's usual approach to architecture is incredibly conservative, and when they break out of it, it's usually to build a real monstrosity. Surely a building as original and as lovely as this one is an occasion for rejoicing and congratulation...
...threat. Out of the blue, Soviet Ambassador Nikita Ryzhov sought an audience with Foreign Minister Feridun Erkin, confronted him with a blunt demand for immediate withdrawal of U.S. missiles and NATO installations in Turkey. Premier Ismet Inonu himself drafted the note of rejection. Next Ryzhov arrived with a second, blunter ultimatum: Withdraw the U.S. bases or the Soviet Union will put Turkey's cities first on the list for annihilation if war comes. "If you don't think we are ready to make war over Cuba, you are mistaken," added Ryzhov. Reportedly, Premier Inonu's response...
...disputed the claim of instant crisis. "In fact," said Pearson, "the present emergency began to develop early this year." Social Credit's Réal Caouette, the funny-money oiator who led his créditistes to a surprising 26 seats in French-Canadian Quebec, put it in blunter fashion. "Diefenbaker knew it months ago; for the campaign, he was hiding those things," he said. "He ought to resign." Diefenbaker indicated that he would not call Parliament into session until September, so that noisy debates would not worsen the crisis. Opposition leaders might grumble, but they knew that...
...admen condemn the FTC out of hand. Says Fairfax Cone, chairman of Foote, Cone & Belding: "The industry cannot police itself; it never could. The FTC is reaching for more authority to do what it is supposed to do." Even blunter is Dr. Max Geller, president of New York's Weiss & Geller agency, who says, "Agencies don't get paid for sticking to principles. If a company wants to go haywire in its claims, the agency either goes along or loses the account. Agencies need the moral crutch of Uncle Sam's regulations to resist the pressure...