Word: flappings
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...Toboggan. After the Clague flap, the White House ordered that economic pronouncements were to be limited to the top men-Kennedy, Treasury Secretary Dillon, Commerce Secretary Hodges and Chief Economic Adviser Heller. Even then, they were to be made soaringly, and Heller, in Paris for a 20-nation economic meeting, kept a tight lip when questioned about the stock-market slump...
...Western rejections of Moscow's "reasonable" requests, the Russians might try to walk out of the Air Safety Center, and hand their role over to Communist satellite East Germany, which desperately wants to assert its own sovereignty. But by week's end, the whole air corridor flap seemed more a test of nerve than anything else. When the U.S., Britain and France fired off blunt, angry notes warning Moscow that it was "running the gravest risk," the Russian nuisance flights abruptly ended and a Soviet official in Berlin announced that all requests for exclusive air space...
...prologue announces that "this picture symbolizes the widespread immoral conduct prevalent among our young, presenting its facts with brutal significance." What the moviegoer actually gets is a fitfully funny knockabout with an ancient theme, the falling-out of thieves. Three young punks (Jean Claude Brialy, Laurent Terzieff, Franco Interlenghi) flap-foot about Rome, trying to sell some stolen guns (their fence is busy with a funeral), trying to cheat some prostitutes (the girls cheat them), trying to betray one another, trying to impress someone (they don't impress anyone...
...current flap over the sudden awakening of these men to the un-American nature of their clubs seems to smack more of the old grandstand play than of any enlightenment...
...ambitious West German diplomat more or less went into business for himself last week and created a major international flap over Berlin. Bonn's Ambassador to Moscow is stocky little Hans Anton Kroll, 63, a brusque, elbowy diplomat who is widely disliked in the diplomatic world for such incidents as calling the Japanese "half apes," or using embassy secretaries as waitresses at cocktail parties. More seriously, Kroll plugs German rapprochement with Russia. "We must take the détente bus before it leaves with out us," he insists. "We must establish good enough relations with Moscow so that...