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...foreign policy based on moral principles. Before he had taken his seat, he had crossed swords with such eminent senior Democratic defenders of flexibility as Arkansas' William Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and Montana's Mike Mansfield, assistant majority leader. And he had provoked top-drawer praise from foreign-policy specialists on both sides of the aisle...
...wasn't. In the longer run, Jack Scott's reforms turned out to be largely froth. Last week, when Scott got back from three weeks of vacation in California, he found a memo from Cromie waiting on his desk. His top-drawer job was gone. Taking Scott's place as editorial boss of the Sun, with the title of managing editor, is a man who has had his eye on the job all along: harddriving, stolid, German-born Erwin Swangard, 50, who was demoted from assistant managing editor to night city editor by Scott, is cordially disliked...
...Closed Drawer. Old Paratrooper Rayon then met Dr. Lacour at a cafe on the Champs-Elysées, told him Paulo had been strangled and thrown into the Seine. Dr. Lacour passed over 4,000,000 francs, later paid 16 million more. Rayon, as fidgety a hero-villain as fiction has ever provided, went home to Antibes, was back in Paris three days later to tell his story to his lawyer, who had him sign a declaration. The lawyer gave it to Examining Magistrate Jacques Batigne, who read it, reflected, and then apparently filed it in his desk drawer, where...
Patriotic Effort. Paulo, Maïté and the lawyer rushed to Magistrate Batigne with Maïté's story. At long last, the magistrate pulled Rayon's signed statement from his drawer, put the case in the hands...
Over the years, Pasternak has written countless poems "for the drawer" in hope of future publication, though he periodically weeds and destroys some of his backlog. Occasionally absent-minded in conversation (he sometimes lapses into a preoccupied refrain of "da, da, da, da, da"), Pasternak is methodical in his writing habits. He first puts a watch on his desk, draws a pencil from the box he keeps there, and writes in longhand, reusing every sheet of paper (once on each side for separate works): "It's not only economical, but it's more cozy. The paper...