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...Latin American country on the brink of revolution, suddenly finds himself a prisoner of the ailing dictator (well played by José Ferrer) who is dying of a brain tumor. While Dr. Grant ponders whether to operate, revolutionists urge him to let the scalpel slip, and Ferrer offers some glib justifications of dictatorship...
...running a deficit of $5.5 billion a year? Last week, glib Leon Keyserling, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, gave his answer. The Administration's policy of spending more than it earns is no accident, said Keyserling. The Administration planned it that way in order to stave off a recession which "might have turned into something . . . serious...
...President that there was nothing to worry about in the staggering $255 billion national debt. He could find fair-sounding reasons for supporting Harry Truman's threat to break into the steel industry with Government-run plants, reasons why the President should demand new curbs over business. Such glib reasoning was too much for Dr. Nourse, but judging from last week's appointment, it was just right with Mr. Truman. Businessmen, whom Keyserling recently had been trying to win over by soft words, kept their fingers crossed when they heard that he had succeeded Nourse. To them...
Standen's book contains enough firecrackers to keep faculty-club lunches popping for weeks. Chemist Standen could expect few cheers from his fellow scientists ; even the professor of Greek might find him too glib to be taken straight. But for scientists or laymen inclined to speak of science in both holy and fearful tones, Standen's prescription might be a good little relaxer...
Admirers of glib, arm-flailing Evangelist Dr. Billy Graham, 31, swear his voice can penetrate a case-hardened conscience like a jackhammer going through a pile of schist. Last week Dr. Billy appeared before a joint session of the Georgia legislature to urge an old-fashioned revival among the state's sinners, and within two hours the senate had passed a bill to make the state bone dry. Cried Senator Tom E. Rich, during the breast-beating which preceded a 34-to-5 vote: "I used to go home drunk and stumble over . . . my children...