Word: consents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Variety said last week that the White House is concerned over the roles Brother-in-Lawford accepts. Most notably, in Advise and Consent, he will play Lafe Smith, the handsome young Senator who is official Washington's most popular Lothario...
...final decision in writing. Clay's reason was that he did not want to imply that he had waived free access by any route. Wrote Clay later in his book, Decision in Germany: "I must admit that we did not then fully realize that the requirement of unanimous consent would enable a Soviet veto in the Allied Control Council to block all of our future efforts ... I think now that I was mistaken in not at this time making free access to Berlin a condition to our withdrawal into 'our occupation zone...
Chow in the Sky. Wien, who has a hand in the operation of nearly all his syndicated properties, insists that he is not a speculator. "We buy for permanent investment," he declares, "and can only sell a property with 100% consent of the investing partners." Among his plans for the Empire State: to open a luxury restaurant beneath the highly profitable ($2,000,000 a year) observation deck, plant trees around the base of the building, brighten its cavernous lobbies, and complete the air conditioning of its 1,750,000 sq. ft. of rentable space, which currently has a highly...
...TIME, your reference to the Thais as the people who are unwilling to fight is hardly justified, but you are right in saying that we have a strong leader in Sarit Thanarat, and we really need one. The surrender to Japan in World War II did not have the consent of the majority of the people of Thailand. It came from the dictator [Pibulsonggram] who ruled the country at that time. You should have mentioned how admirably the brave Thai soldiers and the serious-minded Thai boy scouts sacrificed their blood in fighting the enemy in Southern Thailand until...
...political jungles of Washington and the other capitals of the world. Mauldin understands the art of politics as few cartoonists do (he has run for public office) and plays on the public's fascination with the intricacies of the subject -a fascination that has kept Advise and Consent on the bestseller lists for 100 weeks. Thus he could reduce the political complexities of the row between the Speaker of the House and the chairman of the powerful Rules Committee to an easily digestible cartoon. "No hard feelin's, Mr. Sam," says Chairman Howard Smith into the telephone after...