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Open Arm-Twisting. He flew down to Atlanta for the funeral of Martin Luther King. When the New York state assembly rejected his cherished $6 billion slum-clearance plan, Rockefeller put on a remarkable display of arm-twisting, forcing 34 legislators to reverse their votes and give him a resounding political victory. In an amazing confession for a politician, Rocky later admitted he had passed out warnings to balky assemblymen that he would withhold such "personal favors" as jobs for their friends and his approval of their pet bills if they refused to cooperate. Said he: "Those guys have never...
...held in a disadvantageous setting. The last time that happened, he recalls only too well, was in 1951, when preliminary talks on ending the Korean War were held behind Communist lines in the village of Kae-song. U.S. officials were forced to thread through a hostile crowd and display white flags when they went to the table. The chief American negotiator, Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, was seated on a chair markedly lower than the one used by his North Korean counterpart, and thus was compelled to look up to his opposite number. This time Johnson is determined that there...
Alarmed by the violence, Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger broke off his Easter vacation in southern Germany and went back to Bonn, where he warned the students to calm down or face the consequences. Meanwhile, in a display of the intertwining relationships between the young European radicals, students staged riots of varying degrees of violence in Rome, Paris and Amsterdam. At week's end, taking advantage of West Germany's troubles, the East German Communist regime issued an ominous warning that it was now barring all senior Bonn officials from traveling to and from West Berlin through its territory...
...savings accounts. He held art auctions and book fairs, gave away coffee and cake, loaded his sumptuous offices with endless tables of free gifts for new customers. When Washington stopped him from advertising such come-ons, Lytton responded by hiring luscious models to wrap gifts in a traffic-stopping display behind the windows of his Sunset Boulevard office...
...involve the audience in the problem it seeks to pose. Hart doesn't really speak his mind until past the half-way point. By then it's too late to build suspense, and the action gallops along at a choppy, unconvincing pace. Much of the dialogue aims to display the character's materialism with irrelevant wisecracks, most of which are not too amusing and some of which are completely unessential. If Hart cut down the jokes and added to the credibility and development of his central issue, Play would serve him and his theme better...