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...other characters make brief appearances. Mr. Wingfield grins eternally from a portrait which is inexplicably being used to prop open the Victrola; I can't imagine Williams' Amanda tolerating such treatment of a picture of the man she chose over seventeen more promising gentlemen callers. Ken Bartels saunters into the Wingfields' home as Jim, the man who comes to dinner as Laura's first gentleman caller and the focus of all Amanda's hopes for her child. His pocket full of gum wrappers, Bartels's Jim is appropriately more whimsical, but just as ebullient as the high school hero Laura...
...performed around the world. The agency is also constantly accused of fantastic James Bondian exploits that more often than not it has nothing to do with. The fact is that no nation can any longer accept Secretary of State Henry Stimson's bland dictum of 1929 that "gentlemen do not read other people's mail." In a nuclear-ringed globe, intelligence is more vital than ever. Nor can a world power automatically limit itself to such a passive role as mere information gathering; trying to influence events may at times be necessary. But it can no longer...
...studies at the Rand Corp. He joined the old Bureau of the Budget in 1969, and two years later was named chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. His prodding of utility executives to pay more attention to environmental safeguards impressed the President. When industry leaders complained, Schlesinger told them: "Gentlemen, I'm not here to protect your triple-A bond ratings...
...Dogwood Festival Queen bestows a kiss on Driver Bobby Allison for winning the pole position. At 1:52 p.m. Petty, wearing a gold fireproof jumpsuit, wriggles through the glassless window in the driver's door, which, for safety reasons, is welded shut. At 2 p.m. the starter says, "Gentlemen, start your engines." The 30 drivers rev up their 500-h.p.-plus monsters, creating a thunder that pierces the cotton stuffed in drivers' ears. After two laps, the pace car pulls away, the flag is dropped and the race...
...Gentlemen, hats off! A genius...