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During his hour-and-a-quarter breakfast with President Eisenhower last week, New York's Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller was like a well-behaved nephew who gave no hint that he was planning to explode a firecracker right in his uncle's lap. Rockefeller chatted amiably about the future of the Republican Party and the importance of "issues" in the coming campaign. Recalled the President later with a twinkle: "Nelson said I'd been a pretty good President. He didn't have much to quarrel about except the defense budget...
...passenger waits for his flight in one of the six lounges, lights warn him of his departure: they fade over where he is sitting, and brighten at the loading zone he is supposed to take. (If he is dozing and does not get the hint, the old-fashioned public address system still pours in over him.) Jetliners nose in to the terminal like animals to a trough. To enplane, passengers simply walk along a short, level ramp into the aircraft's nose door. The umbrella roof keeps the weather away...
...provincial who falls in love with a courtesan and tries, with tragic consequences, to buy her out of her brothel-has not only pictorial charm but genuine story and character interest. Here Grand Kabuki conveys very well the theatrical vividness-and the esthetic purity-of its method, without any hint of vulgarity. And though the Kabuki method, by making a ceremony of the mere uttering of platitudes or repeating of pleasantries, often sadly slows things down, even that has its uses in a Broadway world always hell-bent on speeding things...
...Clement, the 1956 keynoters, are both politically jobless. And Democrats might well worry a bit about Frank Church's florid oratorical style, ominously reminiscent of the embarrassingly overwrought tirade that Tennessee's Governor Clement gushed forth in 1956 ("How long, oh how long, America?"). Perhaps as a hint of things to come. Church last week managed to pack two cliches into a single sentence. He intended to "pull no punches" in his keynote speech, he vowed, but there would be no "hitting below the belt...
...Hints & a Symbol. Astonished by this unprecedented buildup for a Soviet military man, some Westerners inevitably began to see signs that Khrushchev was on a leash. After all, the Red army is known to have little enthusiasm for Khrushchev's policy of peaceful coexistence. Four days before his departure for Paris, Communist Party workers assigned to the Red army had assembled in Moscow for a conference at which one of the chief speakers was tousled-haired Marxist Theoretician Mikhail Suslov, who is always billed by Kremlinologists as the leader of the hard line in Russia's ruling Presidium...