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...lives in the South, as one who has never been ashamed of being a Southerner, and as one who believes that the people of the South are as good citizens as people anywhere else in the country, I resent this political foray." He also had a word of warning for Dirksen. "Unless I am badly fooled," said Russell, "he has killed off a rapidly growing Republican Party in the South, at least so far as his party's prospects in the presidential campaign are concerned...
...first foray at playwriting, Novelist Muriel Resnik sprinkles spice and sentiment with a light hand and adds a fair dollop of wit. The confection is well served by an able cast, the perfection by Sandy Dennis. Liquor may be quicker, as Ogden Nash once argued, but Sandy is dandy...
...good was the lukewarm reception Kennedy got during his first foray into the South in 4½ months. Since then, the civil rights issue has glowed red-hot. At Greers Ferry Dam and at a Little Rock fair later in the day, the crowds were curious and courteous, but not enthusiastic. And Governor Orval Faubus, who contends that
...Auditing Forays. For Government contractors, the new toughness means mountains of paper work to justify every figure. A Midwest contractor found a Navy procurement officer stalking through his plant with a stopwatch, doing time-motion studies on the employees to see if the company could do the Navy's work more cheaply. The General Accounting Office, whose hawk-eyed civil servants dog the Pentagon procurers, has a San Francisco headquarters from which 85 auditors foray out to make sure that company costs are being held down. Chicago's Hallicrafters Co., which had a fixed-price contract to deliver...
...Beautiful Bait is the superior play and seems like a foray into the enchanted realm of a child's dream. It is acted by wondrously well-trained youngsters, none older than 17. The plot: a wicked prime minister, Tung Cho, tries to overthrow a royal dynasty. A loyal statesman dangles a beautiful girl (Wang Fu-jung) as bait before Tung Cho and his general...