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...Douglas were 15 years younger, he would indeed be all but unbeatable. But with age, he has lost some of his zing. Half in jest, Percy remarked: "One thing that bothers me about this is that it's my friends who keep telling me I shouldn't run, and my enemies who tell me I should...
...French don't care what they do, actually," remarked Bernard Shaw's Professor Higgins, "as long as they pronounce it properly." The jest was of the blunt Anglo-Saxon variety, but it sums up the reverence that every cultivated Frenchman feels toward the language of Voltaire and Racine. Since the war, it has been a matter of grave concern that the international community no longer shares this high regard. Gone are the days when Tolstoy's Russian aristocrats conversed and the Congress of Vienna convened-in French. Today France is waging a discreet campaign to reinstate...
...Sovietologist points only half in jest to the recent official photo of the Kremlin talking to the cosmonauts on the last Russian space flight. Whereas Nikita would have appeared all alone, beaming into the telephone, some dozen officials were hovering around. Up front, seated at a desk, were the top men: Brezhnev was actually talking to the spacemen; Kosygin had the other telephone on the desk beside him, and Mikoyan, by stretching hard, just barely made the scene...
...himself too stiff-muscled to dance. He turned to choreography and in 1948 took over the reins of the San Francisco Ballet from his eldest brother William, who had headed the company for a decade. In all, Lew has created some 70 original ballets, including the frolicsome Con Amore, Jest of Cards, one of dance's most dashing spectacles, and Beauty and the Beast, an exercise in controlled romanticism...
...Typical was the protest about the construction of the Novo-Lipetsk steel mill. The plans took up 91 volumes comprising 70,000 pages, specified precisely the location of each nail, lamp or washstand-everything, in fact, except whether the project was economically sound. An engineer estimated perhaps half in jest that at the rate the paper-wafflers were multiplying, by 1980 the planning agencies might well employ every man and woman in the Soviet Union. One mathematician made the astonishing calculation that Russia's G.N.P. might well be doubled simply by cleaning up the planning mess...