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...Without Memories. Until Gromyko's entrance, a successful diplomat was a subtle, imaginative artist, who could improvise a stiff note to a fractious government as quickly as a compliment for a fat lady. But Gromyko behaves in chancelleries and council chambers with all the charm of a misanthropic robot. He is blunt, aloof, without imagination, without the right (or apparently the will) to independent thought. He refers every decision to Moscow. His diplomacy consists in executing Moscow's will to the letter, to the accompaniment of paraphrased Pravda editorials. He is assisted by Physics Professor Dmitri Vladimirovich Skobeltsin (Atomic Energy...
When Stalin's closest friend ("Dear Sergei") Kirov was assassinated, Zhdanov got his job as party boss of Leningrad. Because Westernized, fractious Leningrad was the hottest spot, the post implied absolute trust in Zhdanov's loyalty and ability, and was regarded as the party...
...wound up a booming campaign for Burt Wheeler's renomination in Montana's Democratic primary. But it was not enough. Burt Wheeler was soundly beaten (49,401 to 43,729). His defeat, like his conversion to the "copper collar," was the measure of the disrepute into which fractious Burt Wheeler had fallen...
While neighbors looked on approvingly, bulldozers dragged the fertile topsoil from John Haussermann's farm near Alma, Neb. and dug deep into the subsoil. The draglines and scrapers were collecting fill for a dam across one of Big Muddy's most fractious tributaries, the Republican. After more than a century of periodic suspense and terror, men were harnessing their old enemy, the Missouri River...
...youth, as a coal miner in Oklahoma, handsome, irascible Major General Patrick Jay Hurley once killed a fractious mule by bashing its head with a two-by-four. Last week Pat Hurley, his Irish blood boiling, flailed an indecisive State Department and killed an official attitude...