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...strapping pro football player, decides that a romp with this animated side of beef would give her a new outlook on life. The romp turns into a beery rout, and she wriggles home to drink champagne linked-elbows style with her still uncuckolded mate. Shel ley Winters is forgiven by her husband; Claire Bloom takes pills; and Zimbalist manages to defrost Miss Fonda...
Concluded Eccles: "We must get down to the job of preserving common meanings and standards of purity for the English language. If we fail, we shall not be forgiven for our foolish negligence...
...government, which was still defying public opinion by resisting a 2.5% pay raise for the nation's nurses (many earn only $20 weekly), was lambasted on all sides. Cried the Sunday Telegraph: "This is weakness that will not be readily forgotten or forgiven." By week's end, openly rebellious Conservative backbenchers were charging that pay inequities were directly responsible for the Tories' sweeping electoral setbacks over the past six months. Smarting from their defeats, many demanded that Prime Minister Harold Macmillan fire Party Chairman Iain Macleod-even though it was he who mapped the strategy that swept...
Nikita Khrushchev, no cube he, guffawed at a showing of Pablo Picasso's cubist paintings last year, but the Spanish master's politics are clearly considered more realistic. For his long devotion to Communist causes (a temporary defection over Hungary was forgiven), the Soviet Union awarded an $11,100 Lenin Peace Prize to Picasso, 80, at the very moment that nine Manhattan galleries were honoring him with "An American Tribute...
...first and last time I ever ran for office." Harris learned his trade during nine years in the Elmo Roper polling organi zation. When he departed in 1956 to found Louis Harris & Associates, he took four Roper clients along with him - an unkindness that Elmo Roper has never forgiven. Today the Harris organization grosses roughly $700,000 a year, employs some 3,000 part-time interviewers, mostly women between 30 and 50. The greater part of the revenue comes from market research carried out for business firms or trade associations. Lately, Harris has been probing consumer attitudes toward...