Word: hinting
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...bounced over ruts, thumped into potholes. He turned back in disgust, took a helicopter instead. U.S. Ambassador William C. Trimble fired off a cable to Washington reporting that "the deplorable condition of the highway may deal a severe blow to U.S. prestige and good faith." Last week, taking a hint from Cambodian press suggestions that U.S.-financed repairs might help to "maintain the reputation of American technicians," U.S. engineers prepared to rebuild up to 40 miles. Estimated cost: $3,000,000. More to the point, U.S. investigators on the scene were trying to decide whether the highway's foundation...
...time, Moscow was buzzing with rumors that Premier Georgy Malenkov was on the way out. And although one Nikita Khrushchev, then party first secretary, officially denied the rumors, he pointedly urged his guests to talk to Defense Minister Nikolai Bulganin. Ignoring the hint, the Hearst crew featured Khrushchev's official denial-SOVIET SHUNS WAR, DENIES MALENKOV AND HE MAY SPLIT-which ran in Hearst papers just the day before Malenkov resigned, to be replaced by Khrushchev's hand-picked choice: Nikolai Bulganin...
...Secretary of State Dean Rusk got into a debate on dwarf corn. Khrushchev declared that it could not be grown in quantity. Rusk, who was born on a Georgia cotton farm, insisted that Khrushchev was wrong, and promised to send him some samples. But Khrushchev caught Rusk's hint that the U.S. could grow corn better than Russia could, argued that the problem was not the grain itself but the Soviet Union's lack of machinery and fertilizer. Once they were acquired, he boasted, Russia would bury the U.S. in corn...
...First Symphony was so violently unpopular that Composer-Critic César Cui nominated it for first prize at "a Conservatory in Hell." Rediscovered in 1945, it proves no more shocking to modern ears than Richard Rodgers' Victory at Sea. A romantic but vigorous work, it gives little hint of Rachmaninoff's later rhapsodies. The Leningrad Philharmonic is properly muscular...
This short scene, which might be described as a grey-out, is the work of Jules Feiffer, 32, who was once slyly described by Critic Kenneth Tynan as "the best writer now cartooning." Tynan obviously overlooked James Thurber, but Feiffer appears to have taken the hint. His first stage work, a revue called The Explainers, which is running at Chicago's new Playwrights cabaret theater, in some ways recalls Broadway's A Thurber Carnival, but it has a wry. gentle note all its own. It is also part of a growing Chicago school of humor (although Feiffer himself...