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...gestured about the body-strewn room with a mild indulgence. "Most of 'em aren't used to drinking--more than a tumbler of sherry on cold afternoons. Why, our last big event was a tea for Krishna Menon, only Krishna Menon never showed--and tea, well...
...Fielding can be rough on Americans, too. He lashes out at "hog-mannered U.S. drugstore-cowboys," warns U.S. matrons with chassis by Hokinson: "Don't take slacks or shorts, unless you have a figure like Gypsy Rose Lee's. On fat or plump women, Europeans hate 'em...
Michigan: "And who has time to think about the way we live now? I got important work to do: for the company, for togetherness with the wife and kiddies around TV, for love once a week (Thursday; ; up and at 'em 7 a.m. for another round, bigger and better. You've gotta be on the ball every minute in this world, buddy. Gotta live hard if you're gonna get anywhere. Read a book? How long's it take? Sorry pal, I gotta...
Professor in Politics. Liberal Pearson, history professor turned politician, winner of a 1957 Nobel Peace Prize, makes no effort to match the Prime Minister's give-'em-hell speeches. In matter-of-fact tones, he maintains that the recession would have overtaken any government in power, calls for an immediate $400 million tax cut-rather than a slow-motion public-works plan-to pep up the economy...
...vote-shaking depression. Harking back to an effective 1932 Democratic pitch, the committee accused the Eisenhower Administration of a "Hooverlike" approach to the business downturn. And when his turn came to make a speech, Harry Truman, in a self-styled "spasm," played on depression fears in every give'em-hell...