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...James Sinclair: "The minister groaned and produced a very small mouse." Perhaps to placate taxpayers who might agree, Fleming pointed out that in 5½ months he had not yet been in office long enough ''to achieve all the measures of tax reform" he would like-a hint he doubtless hoped would not be lost on the voters, who will probably go to the polls again in the spring...
...Smith, 59, stickles without compromise about active-duty requirements for military promotion. Last August she successfully blocked the elevation of Cinemactor James (The Spirit of St. Louis) Stewart to reserve brigadier general in the Air Force. Her contention: Stewart's glamour could not justify the advancement. With no hint that she would like someday to be a chicken colonel (Stewart's rank), Senator Smith, light colonel in the U.S.A.F. Reserve, last week got back into uniform, prepared for a month's study of guided missiles...
From Terence, Wycherley took a hint for his chief character, a London rake named Horner, who, to make lust easier, spreads the report that he is impotent. At once husbands contemptuously allow him access to their wives, and soon the secretly gloating Horner has a harem. From Molière's L'Ecole des Femmes, Wycherley took his ingenuous young country wife, who is not quite carefully enough guarded by a jealous husband, and who proves as eager a pupil as Horner is a teacher...
...mysterious war of the white men's raj and begin to lose their health, sanity and land as well. Then they are told to apply for equally mysterious pension checks, thus making their son the poignantly ironic staff of their old age. The title tale Mooltiki has a hint of Disney. Mooltiki is a kind of reluctant dragon among lady elephants. She rumbles and grumbles audibly while stoking the mighty campfire with logs. She would rather blow bubbles in the river or clutch a flower in her trunk than be a proper beast of burden. Around Mooltiki...
...same meeting, William McChesney Martin Jr., the independent-minded boss of the independent-minded Federal Reserve, made clear that he thinks a business decline must inevitably follow an inflationary surge of the sort that has hit the U.S. in the past two years. And he gave no hint that the Fed was getting ready to change its tight-money policy in order to stop the dip. Said Martin: "If you think that any time a decline reaches a certain point, we can just step in and stop it, you have misunderstood the workings of our entire system. Declines have...