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...harpsichord, which lacks dynamic range (it sounds almost the same whether whacked or stroked) and mainly requires delicate, precise fingering. It also requires good care: the slightest humidity change in the Pleasants' Bonn home makes their instrument go sharp in summer, flat in winter. In winter they boil as much as two gallons of water daily to keep it in tune...
Trouble was that Senate Republicans, who like Gates, dislike able, impetuous Jim Smith. As ICA boss he was known to boil over at Congressmen, to refuse jobs to Republican politicians because politics made them "controversial."' Quickly New Hampshire's Styles Bridges and other G.O.P. members of the Senate Appropriations and Armed Services Committees passed the word to G.O.P. National Chairman Meade Alcorn that Smith as Navy Secretary was no go. On that basis Gates persuaded Franke, by then considerably recovered, to reconsider...
...longstanding doubts about the Eisenhower-Dulles disarmament policy came to a boil last month when a panel of U.S. scientists who had found that detection of nuclear tests was dependable -the scientific underpinning of the Eisenhower-Dulles policy -reversed themselves and admitted that underground blasts even up to Hiroshima size were not detectable (TIME, Jan. 12). Thus the Russians could presumably cheat on any agreement at will. AEC Chairman John McCone, onetime (1950-51) Air Force Under Secretary, decided to submit to Secretary Dulles, through proper channels, an interim plan based on the principle that the U.S. should agree...
...recent years, this College has just carried the system of coddling athletes to a nefarious extreme. Whose blood does not boil just a little when he sits down to his chili con carne at the House and thinks of those husky behemoths in their ivied retreat masticating on quantities of chateaubriand and Double Lamb chops...
Gunn (Craig Stevens) has all the normal qualifications: 1) a bachelor apartment that would do for "Baby" Pignatari; 2) a girl friend (Lola Albright) who sings in "Mother's" cabaret and waits languidly on his couch so she can boil a couple of eggs whenever he gets e; 3) a rampant palship with every list, pool shark, trigger man and le in town. But Producer-Director Blake Edwards, 36, who also writes about the Gunn scripts, believes that Pete a little extra going for him. Says ards: "We tailored him in high style, man is intelligent, dresses well...