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Others, such as Russell and McCormack, are too old to stand a brisk pace, or still cling to the simpler tastes of their humble beginnings. But younger congressional leaders, such as Carl Albert and Gerald Ford, also avoid convivial Washington, finding their pleasures in home and family. Like the patriarchs of Congress, they feel no need for the social acceptance so avidly sought by many in the Washington whirl. As one Senate wife observed: "They don't go out a lot or entertain, except for close personal friends. They don't need to. They're there...
...beach, too, offers opportunities for various kinds of East-West relationships. German families, dispersed in a divided Germany, have tearful reunions on the golden sands. Polish black-marketeers, who drive down to Bulgaria every summer loaded with sheepskins, do a brisk seaside business with West Europeans. And everyone-capitalist or Communist-can now refresh themselves with Kaba Kara under the brilliant Bulgarian sun. Once regarded in the Communist world as the very symbol of American and capitalist decadence. Coca-Cola is now bottled in Bulgaria under U.S. license...
...noteworthy cast, only Bogarde and Philippe Noiret (as a diplomatic attache) manage to survive the confusion with any dignity at all. Worse, there is absolutely no trace of Alexandria itself, that city Durrell called "the wine press of love." Fox dispatched a second-string camera crew for a brisk six weeks' worth of location filming, but Cukor shot most of the picture at home in California-on a set that conjured up visions of Sidney Greenstreet-Peter Lorre North African thrillers. The ersatz locale is painfully obvious. "Justine," wrote Cyril Connolly, "is the spirit of Alexandria, sensual and skeptical...
Customers obviously enjoy buying Mutual of New York policies from former Boston Celtics Ace K. C. Jones, now head basketball coach at Brandeis University; he has earned membership in the insurance industry's "Million-Dollar Round Table." Maury Wills, the Dodgers' speedy shortstop, does a brisk business at his six Stolen Base Cleaners in the Los Angeles area; he is currently expanding the chain into a nationwide franchise operation...
...should be demilitarized and controlled by U.N. forces-a proposition that the Israelis, on the basis of past experience, bitterly oppose. As long as peace hopes remain dim, the prospect of more expansive military action remains-and in Israel at week's end there was talk of a brisk Israeli reply soon to Egypt's Suez raid...