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...election year, half a dozen candidates are usually sharpening their spikes for the nomination race. But among the Democratic possibilities for 1956, Adlai Stevenson is so far out in front that few have a serious desire to challenge him. Estes Kefauver, of course, wore his spikes blunt long since, but is still running. As for Averell Harriman, any Governor of New York occupies a strong intraparty bargaining position and must make noises like a presidential candidate...
...tender-minded was the week's most probing social drama, Crime in the Streets (ABC's Elgin Hour, Tues. 9:30 p.m., E.S.T.), about the effect of grinding poverty on a sullen 18-year-old named Frankie (John Cassavetes). Author Reginald Rose's dialogue was blunt and crisp, with an authentic cadence and idiom. When a social worker (Robert Preston) asks Frankie why he is at home, just lying on his crumpled, ratty bed, he gets an unforgettable cry of anguish masked in a snarl: "Because I got a hole in my shirt and my brother...
...Blunt Word. Next day came the climactic battle. Dan Reed moved to send the bill back to committee, with instructions for a provision that would set recip rocal trade back 20 years by requiring that the President follow all Tariff Commission recommendations except in cases where the national security is involved...
When Khrushchev smiles, the light flashes on two gold bicuspids. He is short (5 ft. 3 in.), like all of Stalin's men, but bulky, and he has a blunt, peasant face. Among Russians he has a crude way of addressing all those below him in rank with the unceremonious and familiar "thou." Said a Russian who knew him during his days in the Moscow Soviet: "He exudes self-confidence and aplomb. He knows very well how to annoy people with explanations of their party tasks." Was he talking with Malenkov now about his failed party tasks...
...blunt, rough manners, garrulity and good humor won him attention, but he fired thousands of party secretaries and workers, cracked down ruthlessly on resisting collective farmers. He had an easy audacity about him. During World War II, Stalin gave him the rank of lieutenant general, and he went to work with General (now Marshal) Konev on the Ukrainian front. Professional Soldier Konev masterminded the military strategy; Nikita Khrushchev took care of the politics...