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...obviously skirt the issues. Nixon doesn't really dart his eyes about, but I do it to show the way his mind is working. Imagine him being asked his views about NATO." Abruptly Frye's voice drops into the familiar singsong baritone, and his arms flop up and down like a marionette's: "I'm glad you asked me that question. I'll tell you exactly what I think of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. I think the same of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as I do of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization...
Pianist Vladimir Horowitz likes a relaxing television show as much as the next man, whether it is baseball, or a panel discussion or Bonanza. But when TV tries to get in tune with classical music, Horowitz tunes out. "Everything I've seen on music has been a flop," he says. "There are too many things that distract the eye at the expense of the ear. With a symphony orchestra you jump around the sections. With a singer you see tonsils...
...Mary Wells (now the wife of Braniff President Harding Lawrence), who dressed stewardesses in Pucci-designed uniforms and painted planes in vivid hues. By contrast, TWA's decision to doll up stewardesses on transcontinental domestic flights in "foreign accent" uniforms has proved something of a flop. Having hired the Wells agency away from Braniff, TWA next month will instead start outfitting its girls in what it calls "modernistic nonuniform uniforms." These will consist of casual mufti ensembles, with accessories to suit the individual stewardess' taste...
...University, has been racking up victory after victory this year with the most preposterous high-jumping technique ever devised. Approaching the bar, he plants his right foot, spins a full 180°, and launches himself backwards into the air. Experts are at a loss to explain why the "Fosbury Flop" works. "I wouldn't advise anybody else to try it," says Oregon State Coach Berny Wagner. But it sure does the trick for Dick. Last month Fosbury cleared 7 ft. 2 1/4 in. to win the N.C.A.A. championship, and last week he soared 7 ft. 1 in. to take...
...however, the quality of the applicants--which several councillors admitted had been good--but the divisions within the Council that made the search a flop...