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Many of the other stories point the same moral, and yet Author Sillitoe is almost never bitter, self-pitying or sentimental. Most of his people are buoyed by a bottomless optimism. As Smith puts it, talking about the warden: "It's dead blokes like him as have the whiphand over blokes like me, and I'm almost dead sure it always will be that way, but even so, by Christ, I'd rather be like I am-always on the run and breaking into shops for a packet of fags and a jar of jam-than have...
...Chester Gould's comic strip, Dick Tracy. There was Pruneface, a dead ringer for an exhumed cadaver; the Mole, a homicidal man-sized rodent who lived in a burrow; Itchy, who never stopped scratching; Measles, whose complexion resembled an aerial view of the Badlands; and, of course, that bottomless well of chaw juice, B. O. Plenty. Latest entry is Flyface, whose face is always surrounded by flies-and who has a mother and a nephew similarly convoyed. Last week this unsavory trio, causing many an editor to wince, got to be too much for the Atlanta Constitution...
...biggest man in India. But at a considerable cost to the nation and himself. Last year Nehru told newsmen that he was feeling "flat and stale," and wanted to retire as Prime Minister. He was ravaged by the ceaseless struggle to get things done in the timeless, bottomless morass of India. Food production is still at the mercy of the nation's cycles of flood and drought. Huge, multipurpose economic projects start out magnificently and then gradually fall farther and farther behind schedule. The second five-year plan had to be abruptly cut back because it was creating...
Along with a bottomless campaign chest, Garcia & Co. had the advantage of divided opposition: unable to agree on a joint ticket, Vice President Diosdado Macapagal, Garcia-baiting boss of the Liberal Party, and Progressive Manuel Manahan, hailed by his followers as spiritual heir to the late great President Ramon Magsaysay, abandoned their threatened coalition against Garcia. The Nacionalistas did poorly in the cities. In Manila, brash, gun-toting Arsenio Lacson, one of Garcia's archenemies, won a third term as mayor by a 2-to-1 majority; in Cebu City, Sergio Osmena Jr., son of the Philippines' wartime...
...With bottomless patience the Taylor panel had been trying all week to cut through the murk of charges and counter-charges and down to the core facts of the strike. But they got little help from either Steelworker President Dave McDonald or Steel Industry Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper. With nearly 90% of the nation's steelmaking capacity idled since mid-July, with layoffs spreading rapidly through the economy as manufacturers shut down for lack of steel (see BUSINESS), McDonald kept spouting purple rhetoric, Cooper kept spouting dun-grey generalities. Said Chairman Taylor at one of the sessions...