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That puts Debré right where he wants to be, bidding against Pompidou to be De Gaulle's No. 1 collaborator. Few people in Paris think that he can unseat Pompidou as De Gaulle's choice for President chiefly because the acerbic, colorless Debré has proved himself virtually unelectable. What may emerge, Elysee theologians believe, is a kind of duumvirate, with the genial Pompidou as a winning President to succeed De Gaulle-and the dour Debré as tough, party-lining Premier...
Rusk is commonly labeled "colorless" and-notably by Schlesinger-"indecisive." Yet, as he points out, "the course of wisdom lies in reducing the impact which accidents of personality have upon the relations among nations." He deplores "making policy by phrase," usually writes statements and memos in tinder-dry language. Not that he is totally incapable of turning a wry phrase or cracking a joke. During the Cuban missile crisis, it was Rusk, after all, who commented: "We're standing eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked." Addressing 200 college-age members of the Senate Youth...
...bright. The Conservative candidate, a dynamic business executive named Toby Jessel, 31, ran a hard-hitting campaign, hopping over hedges to pump housewives' hands and playing on the themes nearest to their hearts-chiefly rising prices and taxes. By contrast, Labor's Kevin McNamara, also 31, seemed colorless and retiring, limited his campaign pitch mainly to a call for loyalty to Wilson and the defense of government policies. Moreover, to add to Labor's troubles, a red-bearded left-wing journalist named Richard Gott. 27, entered the race. One of the new breed of folksong-singing Britniks...
...turns to her beads under a shade tree, a caterpillar wriggles down the back of her dress. She screams. A hand some young Negro (Sidney Poitier) runs to help, and the stage is set for the rather obvious tale of a girl to whom all men are colorless. In time she tells her new-found friend her problems, and he, of course, understands instinctively, given the troubles he's seen...
...produced. Final assembly will take place in an ultraclean room, where living contamination will be reduced to as little as a thousandth of what is allowed in clean rooms. At the same time, all of Voyager's exposed surfaces will be decontaminated with ethylene oxide, a colorless gas that is deadly to microorganisms. Finally, the spacecraft will be placed in an airtight, teacup-shaped canister and baked in a giant oven for as long as 53 hours at a temperature of 257° F.-enough heat exposure to kill even the organisms that live within the solid metals...