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Hughes suggests two reasons why Eisenhower allowed himself to be contained behind the wall of Dulles' diplomacy. First, he describes Eisenhower as practically Hamlet-like in his reluctance to carry out his resolves. He was unwilling to indulge in political maneuver for fear the experience of "the gutter" would kill his very universality--his genius for peace. His caution and personal scrupulousness resulted in his inability to move foreign policy in the radical ways so clearly envisioned in Hughes' early speeches. The awkwardness of his diplomacy contrasted fatally with the hopefulness of his rhetoric...
After 15 years and 39 pictures, Tony still has a nagging case of Bronxitis, but his beach-boyish looks and his up-from-the-gutter go have established him securely among the Big Ten at the box office. At 37, he has learned the secret of eternal youth: use plenty of makeup to hide the wrinkles. He has also learned the secret of good cinemacting; don't act-be yourself. As himself, Tony is by no means Cary, but he has studied the old master so carefully that he has become a highly skilled comedian in his own right...
...home were three ounces of pearls, 2,700 antelope horns, which the Chinese prize for their supposed medicinal qualities, and 22 Ibs. of gold, which he planned to export to accomplices in Communist China. Using a mine detector, cops found another cache of gold buried in the gutter in front of the smuggler's house...
...Gutter." In Ohio, Democratic Governor Michael Di Salle, frustrated by his inability to draw Republican James Rhodes into any direct argument, renewed the charge that Rhodes diverted $54,000 in campaign funds for his personal use. Added Di Salle: "He won't make his income tax reports of the past ten years public because I'm sure it shows more than that $54,000 he borrowed from his campaign fund." Apparently unruffled, Rhodes replied: "A man who gets into the gutter deserves only our pity...
...racket as casually as if he were a cigarette: when the racket has used him up it drops him; and because there still seems to be a spark of life left in what's left of him, it steps on him and slowly, thoroughly, grinds him into the gutter...