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...formal change in the Rome Treaty to prevent majority voting on the council, thus retaining control of veto power. France will probably have to settle instead for an informal gentleman's agreement that no country will be overruled on a matter of vital national interest...
Living Blight. The humanoid he has made and destroyed is George Bingham Lockwood of Swedish Haven, Pa., St. Bartholomew's ('91) and Princeton ('95), a not-quite gentleman whose masterly style of address covers and serves a cold-spirited egotism that blights every living thing within its reach. George Lockwood is first seen as he supervises the building of a manor house for himself outside the town where the murderous skulduggery of Grandfather Moses and the more genteel avarice of Father Abraham have made the Lockwoods one of the richest families in the area. But his chief...
...weeks in a rose-covered cottage on an Alp. The idyl ended when a jealous admirer provoked a quarrel. Conrad challenged him to a duel, but then chivalrously fired at the fellow's pistol hand. His opponent, who was Francis Scott Key's grandson but obviously no gentleman, calmly transferred the pistol to his other hand and shot Conrad through the chest. For days Conrad lay near death, but Paula, who never left his side, pulled him through. In the end, reality blighted romance. Conrad ran out of money, Paula ran back to her prince; she later married...
...Virginia Democratic Machine, since the 1890's, has unswervingly stood for white supremacy, a restricted suffrage, balanced budgets, and regressive taxation. Ever since the Constitution of 1901-1902 barred more than half the electorate from the polls, the Machine has had little trouble winning most Virginia elections. Its gentleman-politicians have governed honestly, efficiently, and as little as possible. Virginia's per capita expenditures on education, for example, have consistently ranked slightly above Mississippi...
...pool shark sinking a tricky shot into a side pocket undoubtedly offers more range. Kid also has a less compelling subplot. Away from the table, McQueen gambles on a blonde (Tuesday Weld) and on the integrity of his dealer pal, Karl Maiden. Pressure comes from a conventionally vicious Southern gentleman (Rip Torn), whose pleasures include a Negro mistress, a pistol range adjacent to his parlor, and fixed card games. As Maiden's wife, Ann-Margret spells trouble of another kind, though her naive impersonation of a wicked, wicked woman recalls the era when the femme fatale wore breastplates lashed...