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...like the way you thinch, Fink." Naturally, there are booby traps in the corridors of power. There is J.B.'s nephew, Frump (Charles Nelson Reilly), who has the looks and the instincts of a praying mantis. There is J.B.'s mistress, Hedy La Rue (Virginia Martin), a carrot-topped vixen with a 14-karat heart. And there is the mating-call girl, played by raven-haired Bonnie Scott, who is all ready to be an office widow in the suburbs, "basking in the glow of his perfectly understandable neglect," even before she becomes an office wife...
...prefers the carrot to the stick in his operations, O'Brien uses the power of the presidency sparingly. Time and again, congressional leaders have urged him to recommend that President Kennedy intervene directly in legislative matters. Time and again, O'Brien has refused, acting only in crucial cases when a presidential telephone call or White House talk with a key Congressman is most timely and can be most effective...
...Baptism. Since then Walter Ulbricht has ruled his people with deft application of both the carrot and the stick, always careful to keep in step with the word from Moscow. In 1956, when Khrushchev denounced Stalin at the 20th Party Congress, Stalin's old friend Ulbricht was quick to echo the new line ("One cannot reckon Stalin among the classic Marxists"). For all the thaw, Ulbricht soon cracked down on students and teachers who had friendly ideas of their own, arresting dozens, expelling scores from their universities. To stamp out religion and give new meaning to socialism, Ulbricht introduced...
...soon" become a one-party state (which it is in practice), but added that "true socialism" could not be achieved for a few years. He said that he had no intention of halting the flood of exiles ("those worms and parasites") leaving the new socialism, but held out a carrot to what remains of Cuba's middle class by promising small businessmen that the change would be gradual, even voluntary. "A socialist society is not reached in 24 hours...
Designers' colors for winter sound like a low-calorie diet-carrot, eggplant, prune, cherry and mint. Fabrics range from ordinary reversible wools, suede and leather to delicately worked jerseys, crepe, chiffon and much velvet. The favorite by far is fur-Maggy Rouff shows an all-beaver skirt, Patou an all-nutria dress, and Balmain (a sort of latter-day Gregor Mendel) crosses persian lamb with tweed for a hybrid stadium plaid...