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...place of professional politicians (before De Gaulle, all ministers had to have seats in the Assembly) De Gaulle has brought into his Cabinet a new covey of experts, many of them young (five are 40 or under), whose versatility and expertise constitute a Seine-side New Frontier. Many have survived the rigorous 28-month course at the Ecole Nationale d' Administration (ENA), a blue-chip finishing school for civil service comers that was founded by De Gaulle in 1945 to supply the government with resourceful, apolitical technocrats. Others are lawyers, economists, businessmen, bankers...
...owes a greater debt to the New Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas than to Minsky's old National Winter Garden theater on Houston Street, that is the way Minsky wants it. The nearest thing to a striptease in the proceedings is a number in which a covey of chorus boys gingerly pluck parts of the costume from the frame of a stately brunette. She finally helps by sliding out of her black lace teddies unassisted, but it is all done in the brightest of spotlights and to the accompaniment, not of the traditional tummy-tossing tomtom beat...
...have had it with aristocracies. Corrupt, sleek, lascivious queer or cruel, Italian, French or Spanish, they all amount to the same thing on the screen: vacuity writ large. But the most banal set of all lives in Argentina. Its members are as vapid, unsophisticated and coarse a covey of brightly feathered birds as I have seen in film. Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (director of End of Innocence) records their antics in Summerskin, a cheap and pretentious story in the worst possible taste...
Kennedy made end on the first team in his senior year and earned his letter. With a covey of Kennedys cheering in the stands, he caught a touchdown pass against Yale that year for Harvard's only score in a 21-7 loss. There was a significant sequel to Teddy's efforts to improve his football skills. At Harvard, Teddy fumed at the fact that Clasby could outrun him. "Dick," he said, "sometime in the next ten years I'll bet I beat you in a race." Last month, when Clasby, now a lumber broker...
...broad-winged aircraft looked as if it had been flattened against the white cliffs of Dover. The propeller sprouted out of its tail like a designer's afterthought. In the cabin, the pilot rode a first cousin to a bicycle, and he was pedaling furiously. A covey of anxious friends checked his progress...