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...dressed, "Smiling Mike" impressed and puzzled Washington with his molar-showing cordiality. Menshikov was all smiles until the U-2 dustup. Then the Russian Ambassador simply vanished from the Washington scene for a while. After the Kennedy in auguration he reappeared, smiling as usual, but in recent months his grin seemed to be wearing thin...
...guess I really sounded like a racist, didn't I?" apologized Malcolm, with a friendly grin on his face. But to the panel Malcolm X did not sound like a racist, but rather a deeply religious man, morally indignant over the treatment Negroes have received at the hands of white American society...
...around to mess things up?" demanded the New York Daily News, which had repeatedly hollered for Bowles's hide. "JFK would do far better by simply giving the grand and final boot to Administration misfits, beginning with Bowles." Observed the Charlotte, N.C., Observer: "The fellow with the lopsided grin is no longer welcome at the President's table, but he may continue to accept the crumbs." The Detroit Free Press refused to accept the official line that Bowles had not been downgraded, said flatly that "Bowles was fired because he didn't belong and wouldn...
...Consumer confidence has begun to reappear," beamed Bernard Gimbel, berry-eyed boss of Manhattan's Gimbel Bros. Over at Macy's, Chairman Jack I. Straus was quick to match the Gimbel grin. Said he: "Our Christmas sales this year will come close to or break the season's record." From Burdine's in Miami to the Bon Marche in Seattle, U.S. retailers last week reported the same phenomenon: with "big ticket" items such as TV sets leading the way, department stores sales spurted 6% above last year's levels during Thanksgiving week, and many stores...
Unlike Eliot's, Simon Carter's world is inately ludicrous. He is a party to a power struggle between two stock Snow characters, Edwin Leacock (the "ambitious scientist-administrator," confident of imminent success, armed for battle with "bonhomie and grin" and "four-square honesty") and his deputy Robert Falcon (old friend of Carter's, the right sort of person, arrogant, dandyish, famous soldier-explorer, with a head like a ravaged handsome Apollo"). But the struggle is not for control of a ministry or even of an industry, but for the right to guide the destinies of the London...