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...Hampshire?" said Stephens. "Well, I want to help you now, and in a few months I think you'll be able to kid about this, too." Adams looked up wordlessly as a smile brushed his face. Even his closest friends could not tell whether it was anger or chagrin or guilt-as well as a sense of having failed the Administration-that whipped his mind. "He is not the kind of guy that can sit down and bat it around," said a staffer. "Even with his close friends, he can't be personal...
...were knife-toting youngsters awaiting trial on such charges as robbery, assault and rape; many others had been convicted and turned back into the schools on parole or suspended sentences. Some could not be notified immediately of their suspension; they were chronic truants. Others, ironically, took the news with chagrin. Said one principal: "They felt they couldn't be touched. They didn't want to be in school in the first place, but when we told them we didn't want them, that was different...
...since the paper was born to shimmy with the Moscow line, the Communist Party has huffed, puffed and passed the hat repeatedly to save Manhattan's Daily Worker from folding. Last week the party tried for the first time to fold the Worker deliberately-and found to its chagrin that the hardy little rag kept right on coming...
Most dealers today admit with chagrin that they at first misjudged their man. Their impression was that Niarchos was buying to cover his walls, or as investments. Today such feelings have given way to respect in the light of Niarchos' hard bargaining, retentive memory and grim determination that has had his agents stalking important paintings for years. "If I had to name two characteristics of Niarchos," says one international art dealer, "they would be that he prefers 'strong pictures,' and that he had good taste, or good advice, right from the beginning...
Launching of the Russian satellite is man's first successful attempt to navigate the ocean of space around the earth. Despite the chagrin of U.S. rocketmen, few disparaged the Russian achievement. In at least three important ways-weight, orbit and altitude-the sputnik* outclasses the U.S. satellite, which is still on the ground...