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...admiration of "the brilliance of Khrushchev's performance in the use of nuclear diplomacy." But Lerner was fearful just the same: "The still unanswered question is whether there is not a demon driving Khrushchev and world communism which will not stop because it cannot." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Marquis Childs wondered if the "world will survive," pinned his personal hopes on the U.S.'s new disarmament agency-a small-bore institution ($10,000,000 to work with) as yet unborn. Chronically gloomy Joe Alsop warned his readers to face the unpalatable truth: "For the first...
...That Fits. Charleston's News & Courier styles itself SOUTH CAROLINA'S MOST OUTSPOKEN NEWSPAPER. The staunchly segregationist Columbus Commercial Dispatch hails itself as MISSISSIPPI'S MOST PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER. Connecticut's 197-year-old Hartford Courant calls itself the OLDEST NEWSPAPER OF CONTINUOUS PUBLICATION IN AMERICA. Despite saturation news coverage by TV and radio, many dailies idly boast that they are FIRST WITH THE NEWS...
...Sophoclean theatricality, her hopes are dashed only to spiral into joy when her brother reveals he is alive in the famed recognition scene. Up to this point, Electra has been a kind of female Hamlet except that her griefs lie all without. After this point, she and Orestes dispatch Clytemnestra and Aegisthus with all the aplomb of Chicago gangsters...
...puts college students who are thinking of working for the company after graduation through a summer game in which each player "runs" an imaginary plant producing "synthetic granules and bulk-oil food products." General Electric has six games going under such ear-shocking titles as Uniflo, Inven-trol and Dispatch-0. "It's really a way to adjust your mind to top management," explains one G.E. executive. "The quicker you start to think of a business problem as a thing without human beings, the bet-er you'll do." Not to be outdone, competing Westinghouse...
Rocketing into the In box of Britain's unflappable Prime Minister Harold Macmillan came a dispatch reporting foreign concern over the adulation showered on Red Spaceman Yuri Gagarin during his recent visit to Britain. In no time at all the dispatch rocketed out again bearing a sardonic notation by the leader of the world's most zoophilous nation. "It was nothing," scratched Mac the Knife, "to what that little dog would have...