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...answer to the lagging re-enlistment problem in our armed forces will never be found by consulting know-nothings like ex-Secretary of the Air Force Symington, Ralph J. Cordiner, or any other top-drawer official in the U.S. The real answer is not money but a recognition of the enlisted man as a human being...
...soap has kept the mass readership in a happy lather for the last half-century. But yesterday's suds, as that shrewd old party could have told the makers of this movie, just won't wash. The Painted Veil (1924), dragged out of Hollywood's bottom drawer, has faded so badly it is hard to recall that on Greta Garbo it looked good...
...Beck. Promised tall, dour John English: "We are going to wash our own dirty linen." The A.F.L.-C.I.O. believed him. To allow time for the scrubbing to begin, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Ethical Practices Committee postponed indefinitely its scheduled investigation of the union that once belonged-lock, stock and cash drawer-to Dave Beck...
...cart will fall apart and the rider will drop into an Ivy model suit. Fetishism such as this is like an old school ring; when it begins to pinch, you leave it at home in your dresser drawer...
...first ran for mayor," said Paul Egan of Aurora. Ill. last week, "everybody thought I was a joke. They tried to prove I'm crazy. Once they got working on my wife and they almost had her persuaded to commit me to an institution." Opening the desk drawer in his office in the ramshackle city hall 35 miles west of Chicago, hen-shaped Mayor Egan spat into it, slammed it shut. At 58, blue-eyed, poly-chinned Paul Egan is no joke. The magazine Chicago called him "the worst mayor in the world"-but the electorate of industrial Aurora...