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...Bladder Technique. Balancing all these factors, John Kennedy decided to talk and not test-for the time being. To Ambassador Dean in Geneva went instructions to continue trying to outsit the Russians (which Dean wryly calls "the bladder technique"). The faint hope was that U.S. patience and the pressure of world opinion might just wring out some Russian concession. "The stakes are too important." said President Kennedy, "for us to abandon the draft treaty we have offered at Geneva...
...workers dug deeper, they began the first thorough housecleaning that the rooms had had in nearly 20 centuries. Bucket after bucket of earth was lifted out of the first room, and Carettoni spotted faint patterns on the inner plaster walls-well-preserved frescoes of the long-gone Augustan period...
...Faint hope stirred in some corners: the Nashville Tennessean mused that "some of the fog can be cleared away as the heads of two friendly and allied states talk things over in an atmosphere of reason." But in Europe there were no illusions at all. William Randolph Hearst Jr., setting out on one of his journalistic junkets, sensed a "European atmosphere of doubt about the wisdom of the trip and misgivings about its outcome." And the French press was plainly not enthusiastic. "It would be vain to hope." editorialized Paris' Le Monde, "that the discussion magically ends the differences...
...does not have great bones. It grins well, and has mastered the large-eyed look that goes with the expression "Ooooh!" But it is not very good at registering more subtle emotions ("Aaaaeee!", "Aaannh?" and "Mmmm!"). And nothing it shows in public moments is as intense as the faint crinkle of brow when, several times a day, its owner changes a mole into a beauty spot with a makeup pencil...
...watching Perry Mason turn faithfully to ABC. They endure anywhere from five minutes to an hour of stupefying drama about racketeers and handsome reporters that is worth watching only because each reporter is able to say. "This time you've gone too far, Rocco," without removing the faint smile from his lips. Eventually, press and prey fetch up at a speakeasy, always in time to catch Dorothy's number...