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...screen, because Susskind insisted on talking to Khrushchev not as a reporter but as one statesman to another, and because he loaded his imprecise questions with long, patriotic declarations clearly designed to demonstrate Susskind's own political soundness (pressure against the show from all sides, including general dicta from the State Department, had produced the kind of "hysteria" in which he got caught, Susskind explained later). Now and again Susskind was flip, as when he delivered the now-famous line, "You are baying at the moon," and Old Moon-Shooter Khrushchev gave him a naughty-boy dressing down, beginning...
...block. Wearing a black babushka, black glasses, black duster and carrying a black bag that seemed to contain everything from tranquilizers to a bunch of half-dead roses, she tossed lavish bouquets at her pupil ("Boom. It's like electricity") and steadily quoted her husband's theatrical dicta...
Died. Wilton Wade McCrory, 87, frontier-style judge for 31 years on the Texas Criminal District Court bench in San Antonio; of cancer; in San Antonio. Before his retirement in 1954, Judge McCrory delighted many (and infuriated some) Texans with his salty obiter dicta on such subjects as poker (decrying impurities such as lowball), marital infidelity (advising forsaken wives to use the straight razor on their unfaithful husbands), rape ("There's been about as many men raped as gals; we don't have one real rape case a year in this county"), and murder ("Ask anybody if anyone...
Quesada has also been hotly accused of being unnecessarily arbitrary and of failing to consult with the industry before he gavels out his dicta. Recently, he ordered airlines to install weather radar in all planes, had to back down and make an exception of obsolescent planes when some lines raised a ruckus. The Air Line Pilots Association, the exclusive A.F.L.-C.I.O. union (membership: 14,000) led by Militant Pilot Clarence Sayen, is Quesada's most vociferous critic. A.L.P.A.'s latest complaint: Quesada's new ruling requiring mandatory retirement of all transport pilots at 60. The union...
Once when a young couple sought to have their infant baptized in the vernacular, Knox snorted: "The baby doesn't know English, and the Devil knows Latin." Despite the seemingly arrogant assurance of some of his publicized dicta (e.g., "All the identity discs in Heaven are marked R.C."), Knox went through ordeals of parched spirituality, notably in respect to prayer. He once wrote: "In the great bulk of my prayers, vocal and mental, all my life, I have not felt I was talking to God in his presence, but rather apostrophizing him in his absence...