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...years ago, when the Commonwealth ministers rnet in London, Butler's authority was far from assured. He had just taken office. Britain's dollars were bleeding away; the Commonwealth and colonies were earning more dollars than Britain itself. Butler had to combine stern advice with discreet pleadings...
...question of segregation in Southern public schools, Editor Ralph McGill of the influential Atlanta Constitution (circ. 173,591) has long steered an enlightened but discreet course. But last week, in his daily column, McGill spoke bluntly. "What the various Southern state legislatures are doing," said he, "as they busy themselves with plans to carry on school segregation without legal compulsion, is admitting [that] segregation by law is finished ... It, therefore, seems important that we discuss the problem as rationally as possible...
...should decide to publish his memoirs when he was only 44, and while he was still Austria's Foreign Minister, they put it down to his widely mown penchant for remarking on the talents of Karl Gruber. But they were really startled by what the ordinarily suave and discreet Dr. Gruber chose to remember. In the independent Die Presse, which published the Gruber memoirs, there appeared one day a chapter relating how Austrian Communists sat down with leaders of Gruber's own Catholic People's Party in 1947 to negotiate a partnership. People's Party leaders...
...misleading and would slow down the purchases of black & white TV sets. In Manhattan J. M. Smith, vice president of the Davega chain, admitted that business was generally slow and said that front-page stories about color TV had "helped kick it downstairs." Most TV manufacturers maintained a discreet and presumably busy silence, but the Magnavox Co. bought full-page ads in magazines and newspapers which asked: "Are You Waiting for Color Television?'' The copy of the ad went into a heavy reverse sell: "If you are the man who is driving an expensive foreign car and your...
...looking like the lean, dark actor, Liberace is pudgy, his curly hair is greying, his brow is broad. And he is not the strong, silent type. At a typical performance, he sits at the grand piano on a darkened stage with a 25-piece orchestra behind him and a discreet candelabra near by. He flashes a dazzling smile at the crowd, waves and mugs, squints up into the balcony and gushes into a convenient microphone, "Ooh look, there are people way up there...