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...Tucson House shopper simply summons Gorman by telephone, then switches her set to Channel 2. Is the lettuce crisp? The corn ripe? She can inspect each item as closely as could be without actual melon tunking or peach squeezing. Gorman rings up the order under her watchful eye, then hangs up the phone. The groceries are delivered within minutes. The lady need never get dressed. Gorman cannot inspect...
Taking over in Bogota in 1961 on his first ambassadorial assignment, Freeman traveled 25,000 miles around the country talking to people who had never seen an American before. Such freewheeling diplomacy raised eyebrows, but Freeman won general respect for his sincere-and at times crisp-approach to U.S.-Colombian relations. In 1962, when some government officials accused U.S. corporations of taking more out of the country than they put in, Freeman quietly made his own survey and disclosed the real facts-which showed that U.S. companies reinvested most of their profits. This squelched the critics...
Presidents, and neither the eloquence of Franklin Roosevelt, the bluntness of Harry Truman, the camaraderie of Dwight Eisenhower nor the crisp rationalism of John Kennedy had much effect. Will a Texas drawl succeed where so many others failed...
...mothers tremble or curse at the sight of them, for all have sprung, fatherless, from some worldwide parthenogenetic conspiracy-a detail borrowed from the eerie Village of the Damned (1960). The sequel pales in comparison, as do most sequels. But it is filmed with taste and acted in crisp style, particularly by Alan Badel as a witty geneticist who strikes just that note of detachment that makes the whole thing seem lightly plausible. The movie's spell holds nearly to the end, when all the far-out fun of pseudoscience suddenly shapes up as a message. Too bad that...
...their maroon tarbooshes and crisp khakis, the King's African Rifles stood tough and tall in the front rank of Britain's far-flung battle line. Whether the enemy was a spear-swinging Somali shifta or a Japanese marine behind a clattering Nambu machine gun, the well-disciplined askaris of the K.A.R. could be counted on to attack as ordered. Last week, from the headwaters of the Nile to the beaches of the Indian Ocean, the Rifles were barking again. But this time their muzzles were trained on British troops and their own recently independent governments...