Word: jabbing
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work has begun on Hasty Pudding Show number 114, which Walter Benson '62, producer, described last night as "a jab at nepotism in the Kennedy family." The play will be concerned with the tribulations of the Peace Corps in Africa...
...Potsdamer Platz and the soaring sandstone Brandenburg Gate, thousands of East and West Berliners gathered to gape and to jeer at the scowling Communist troops gripping submachine guns and standing shoulder to shoulder beside a solid phalanx of armored cars. When the crowd moved too close, there was the jab of a Communist bayonet or a sudden blast from the powerful Wasserkanonen (water cannons), the wheeled squirters of the East Berlin riot squad that can topple...
Byrd in Flight: Donald Byrd (Blue Note). Byrd has two voices: he can jab out his message with agility, brilliance and exuberance, or he can build in long, open-throated lines, as expansive as any now coming from a trumpet. Both are well served here in such numbers as Little Boy Blue and his own composition...
...glib political oratory we have heard this progress called standing still. If the great things you have done are 'standing still,' then I say America needs more of it." Ike's best crack, by far, was a stinging jab at Kennedy's repeated references to a drop in U.S. prestige: "My friends, anyone who seeks to grasp the reins of world leadership should not spend all his time wringing his hands...
...about the Kennedy-Johnson ticket as "sufficient instruction'' to vote for Nixon-Lodge. In rebuttal, Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond, sometime Byrdman who has gradually set up a separate camp of his own, spoke up for Jack Kennedy and seized the chance for a sly jab at Byrd and his lieutenants. "I am certainly not going to label these distinguished Virginians as Republicans," said Almond with deadpan irony. "Senator Goldwater has already done that. Whether his statement is a compliment or an accusation is a matter for these gentlemen to deal with as they...