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...savings are net to the U.S. taxpayer. A riffed employee who is a permanent civil servant usually gets slotted (reabsorbed) in Washington. Another can sometimes bump (push out) the man below him, and move down into his job. The bumping process can presumably continue until only the office junior is riffed...
...shepherd, a bull or a swan for purposes of dalliance ("Though the girls are squeezable," leers Cupid, "with a swan it isn't feasible"). Jupiter (well sung and acted by Baritone Ralph Herbert) takes Juno and the other gods on a junket to Hades, where they bump into Eurydice; after a few random shots from Cupid's bow, everything ends in a happy shambles. The "go-to-hell" joke is worked pretty hard in the dialogue, but that is offset by Offenbach's tunes. At least two of them. An Old Love Dies and Brunswick Maine, could...
...Kate will be released in four shapes and sizes this November: 1) small screen flat, 2) small screen 3-D, 3) large screen flat, 4) large screen 3-D. Meanwhile, many movie-men were beginning to think that 3-D was less a shot in the arm than a bump on the head: box-office returns on the latest 3-D films are showing a steady decline from the top grosses of such early novelty hits as Bwana Devil and The House of Wax. Because many theater owners believe the profit on 3-D pictures is not yet enough...
...Wimbledon, Australian tennis suffered an unexpected bump in the quarterfinals when Ken Rosewall was upset by Denmark's Kurt Nielsen, and Lewis Hoad was beaten by Philadelphia's Vic Seixas...
Twelve new aviators joined President W. Nelson Bump's flying club. Class members were W. C. Atwater, E. Henderson, Sargent Kennedy, and J. L. Pool...