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...right man for ev...
Says one high army officer: "If the politicians think we risked our lives for ev erything to go on just as before, they are making a capital mistake...
Apropos of nothing, Illinois' Everett McKinley Dirksen arose in the Senate last week to ornament a dreary debate. "Mr. President," orated Ev, "there is such a word as 'euphemism.' I do not think I have looked it up for years, but I suppose a 'euphemism' is 'something that seems like what it ain't.' Perhaps that is as good a definition as I can give. I am reminded of the man who filled in an application for an insurance policy. One of the questions he had to answer...
...Ev Dirksen was in his most Vesuvian oratorical humor. Dodd's criticisms, he cried, amounted to "incoherencies." Noting that Dodd had not yet arrived on the floor, Dirksen said that "the brave crusader from the Nutmeg State on his white charger has great zeal for being here and getting on with business, and he is not here...
...Back Again at Zima Junction (Ev-tushenko's Siberian birthplace, which he recently revisited), Evtushenko concedes he was "unhorsed, honor nowhere near me" when he returned to Moscow from his reckless visit to Western Eu rope last winter. With a nod to the Kremlin, he admits: The "sharp criticism was useful in the final analysis." But then he adds acidly...