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...rapidly. Catching George Marshall's eye, he was made Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Administration, the department's No. 3 job. He was personally popular on the Hill when the State Department was not. He was good at getting appropriations, but it was also his casual candor in referring to the dismissal of 91 homosexuals that gave Joe McCarthy so valuable a weapon for attacking the department...
...tribute to the candor and restraint of the picture that most moviegoers will be reluctant to decide for themselves between the blood and the bread mother. Explains the Chief Justice (Alexander Knox): The law books do not serve in such a case, for justice defeats itself if in its application the good are made to suffer...
...short, the West would be asked to give up the fact of NATO's 15-nation army in exchange for the scrapping of the paper satellite command set up at Warsaw two months ago. Said Bulganin in a burst of candor: ''Our eventual objective should be to have no foreign troops remaining on the territories of European states...
...begins to master these fears, Tom finds himself worrying less about becoming a corporate flunky. He even nerves himself to tell Hopkins that he has "serious doubts" about Hopkins' proposed version of the mental-health speech. Far from firing him for his candor, Hopkins respects Tom's honesty and starts to groom him as a top executive...
...less lyrical than it is sensual, Pam and The Groper's love-making has a vernal, childlike candor about it that soars above the sordid. Pam's pregnancy and a call from the draft board break the spell but weld the couple in marriage and newfound maturity. Next of kin in mood, manner and appeal to J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, The Young Lovers uses a breezy class-of-'55 lingo to shine up the ancient story of boy-mates-girl. Author Halevy, a 35-year-old New Yorker, scores his first...