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...register. That night, when he went to nearby Wilson's Standard Oil service station to buy gas and use the men's room, he got into an argument with Attendant Marvin Segrest, 67, with whom he had quarreled several times previously. Segrest went to a desk drawer, pulled out a gun, and fired twice. Younge fell dead with a .38 slug near his left...
...serious playwright. "There's too much wrong with Oh Dad, too much that I wouldn't do now that I did then. In fact, there's a good deal wrong with almost everything I've written. I've got two full-length plays sitting in my bottom drawer, and they'll probably stay there...
...mark as a bitter, bedrock enemy of Communism, while Sinyavsky merely mocks its Stalinist aspects. To Kremlinologists from Bonn to Washington, this suggested that Sinyavsky might be one of those Russian writers who produce critical work that is acceptable for open publication, but whose best efforts are for the "drawer"-they cannot be published anywhere but in the West. Thus a foreigner reading a noted critic's articles in Literaturnaya Gazeta may get a wholly false impression of his talents. Of one bottom-drawer writer, a Soviet official recently exclaimed: "He's much, much better than his work...
Nuts & Bolts. When he first hove into Washington, McNamara left congressional committees speechless with his matchless grasp of detail. Said Pennsylvania's Democratic Representative Daniel Flood: "I had the impression that if we would ask the secretary for the number of nuts and bolts in Warehouse No. 1, drawer 7, Fort Dix, he most probably could tell us." But Congressmen soon became resentful of overwhelmingly documented proposals that left little room for debate; nor was McNamara's popularity on Capitol Hill burnished by his abrasive style and transparent impatience with congressional dillydallying...
...make a contemporary spy thriller without sneaking in a nod to James Bond would apparently be an unthinkable breach of custom. In Agent 83A, the amenities are ticked off with ease when Robert Morley, as an epicene intelligence chief, routes Bond's records into a file drawer marked "Deceased." That takes care of 007, but leaves 8¾% with only fractional assets...