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...faces another problem. Even more than in life, the TV female is deadlier than the male. On practically every TV husband & wife show, the husband gradually diminishes to a straight man while the wife moves front and center, grabbing the best lines. Some TV husbands do little more than feed gags to their wives (e.g., Burns to Allen), or end scenes by chuckling: "In spite of everything, darling, I love you very much." TV wives invariably know best, and their most crackpot ideas turn out better than their husband's commonsensical thoughts...
...rifle and Gatling gun has been ferried ashore through a moonlit surf from a ghostly schooner with no greater consequences than to give a dictator a mild scare or O. Henry an idea for a light-hearted story. Last week guns were again going ashore-but in a different, deadlier contest. Two thousand tons of arms and ammunition, more than all Central America has received in the last 30 years, were pouring out of the holds of a Swedish ship into Communist-infiltrated Guatemala. They were Communist weapons, almost certainly from Czechoslovakia's famed Skoda works. More were thought...
GRUMMAN Aircraft has developed a deadlier version of its swept-wing Cougar (F9F-6) jet fighter for the Navy. The new plane has a longer fuselage, wider, relatively thinner wings which give it higher speed (more than 650 m.p.h.), greater fuel capacity, more maneuverability at high altitudes...
...that the exchange would not help the Soviet war effort. But importance of these goods for war production seems beyond dispute. And in a larger sense, the "non-strategic trade" idea itself is just a convenient fiction. Every fishing trawler Britons make for Russia releases Communist manpower for other, deadlier tasks. And on the other side of the coin, every product the West denies Russia means an added strain on the Soviet economy. The past year has shown that internal economic crises may result in a softening in Soviet foreign policies. By bolstering the Soviet economy, the West creates...
Next week Princeton will provide the opposition on the issue: "Resolved: That the female of the species is deadlier than the male...