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...election of the trustworthy candidate, former Governor Volpe, does not necessarily promise a real revolution in the Commonwealth's political morals. The first 22 months of his first term, until he lost the election, were marked by unusual if colorless honesty, but in the mad scramble afterwards by his supporters and staff to get jobs before the Democrats took over, he did little to distinguish himself. The Democratic Governor's Council, uncertain of its relations with the new Governor, Chub Peabody, and anxious to get his friends into office, was more than cooperative in making deals with Volpe...
...Chicago suburbs does Percy, a daily commuter, seem to maintain a winning pace. But moderate G.O.P. candidates have always been strong in the land of the shopping center. To succeed at the polls, these Republicans will have to broaden their appeal. And Percy, opposing a respected but colorless incumbent governor, does not seem to have done this...
...neither man fits any past Kremlin mold for power. As technocrats, both are colorless politicians. And, unlike Stalin, Malenkov and Khrushchev -each of whom had to claw his way to the seat of power-both Brezhnev and Kosygin were the logical heirs to their new posts. They had been put in line by the fallen Khrushchev...
Unfortunately, the book contains far too much social relations jargon and too many statistics to make pleasant light reading. In fact, if Casey Stengel's memoirs were to appear written in the plodding, colorless prose of an introductory mathematics textbook, it would still be difficult to find a book as unrevealing of the author's character as A Profile. Virtually all of Pettigrew's exuberance, humor, and fondness for improbable metaphor has been carefully excluded. Yet if scholarship has supplanted lively writing, the scholarship is always topnotch and usually provocative...
...truth, Lucien Leger, 27, looked disappointingly unlike most Parisians' spine-tingling image of I'etrangleur, the Jekyll-and-Hyde strangler who had hogged the headlines and taunted the police for 40 days. "The Machiavelli of crime," as France-Soir had dubbed him, turned out to be a colorless, bespectacled little (5 ft. 4 in., 130 Ibs.) male student nurse from the shabby suburb of Villejuif. His hobby was writing banal verse, which he set to borrowed music; he even paid to have his songs recorded and issued in a jacket flatteringly decorated with his face and name...