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Novelist Irving Wallace and his son David Wallechinsky* justify this massive expenditure of paper and ink with forthright immodesty: "Where the familiar, standard almanacs leave off and stop-well, that's where The People's Almanac begins." They are incontestably correct. Among the items not to be found in standard almanacs but present here: summaries of every game played in the Little League World Series; a biography of Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck's miserly uncle; pop psychohistories of selected U.S. Presidents, including Truman ("Harry was a 'mama's boy' "); 16 pages of fact...
Another supporter said he favored Shapp because "he is the only one who's been forthright on the gay rights issue...
Schorr's admission was forthright, but it raised more questions than it answered. For one thing, how he originally acquired the Pike papers remained unknown at week's end and seemed certain to become the subject of a federal investigation...
Having served under Ambassador Moynihan in India, I can appreciate that you understand his talents and idiosyncrasies. His appointment gives us, at long last, a spokesman of courage and conviction. His forthright manner was bound to disturb the U.N. I suggest that some Churchillian growls of support from Britain's representative would have been more appropriate than the petulant laments of a piqued neo-Chamberlain...
...provide Government backing for up to $250 million in commercial bank loans to financially troubled Lockheed. Understandably unhappy at the appearance of the Government guaranteeing loans to a corporation that has been shelling out millions in overseas payoffs, Simon told the Senate Committee that Lockheed had "apparently not been forthright" about its practices, and insisted that the Loan Board "will not condone illegal or unethical activities by American business, here or abroad...