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...year) named Humphrey Hogan, 'whose rise to G59 ($5.440 a year) is blocked by an outrageous menagerie of nitpickers and by his own absence of ambition. But his happy inconsequence irritates a blue-eyed, butterfat young stenographer and she dangles herself in front of Humphrey like a hunk of process cheese. Mouse that he is, he leaps for the bait and begins to assert himself around his office. Abruptly, he is buried under freshly picked nits.' "Kay," he whispers, "you've got the wrong man. I can't change the world." Her reply: "You can change...
...Submerge a Feud. Later this month King Saud will visit Baghdad to see Iraq's 22-year-old King Feisal, and perhaps his Hashemite cousin, Hussein of Jordan, too. Together these three Kings control a huge hunk of the Arab Middle East and the vast bulk of its economic resources. If Saud can submerge his old feuds with the Hashemites, an effective counterweight to Nasser (and to his lone ally, Syria) will have been built up in the Arab world itself...
Churchill's Land. It was Winston Churchill, Britain's Colonial Secretary after World War I, who created the artificial desert kingdom that Hussein rules. Churchill whacked a hatchet-shaped hunk off the defunct Ottoman Empire, called it Transjordan, and handed it to Hussein's grandfather Abdullah "one Sunday afternoon in Jerusalem," as he later said. Churchill was repaying Abdullah's fighting services to Britain in Lawrence of Arabia's desert campaign (another hunk-Mesopotamia, now Iraq-was given to Abdullah's brother Feisal). Thenceforth, while Britain's Glubb Pasha built the British-equipped...
...against disease? Said O'Connor: "We've considered three alternatives. One would be to shut up shop. Quit. But I don't think the public would let us. Another would be to pick out another specific disease. But we hesitate to chop off a big hunk of disease. The third alternative would be to pick out a broader area of activity. Geriatrics and mental disease are the two biggest problems in the U.S., but the size of the program needed to tackle them would be forbidding. I wish I knew what...
Windsor Castle, beamed to Marilyn, lightly wrapped in gold lame: "We're neighbors!" Also on hand to meet the Queen was beautiful-hunk-of-man Cinemactor Victor (I Wake Up Screaming) Mature, so edgy that he later could not remember a word that Her Majesty uttered...