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Three Strings. In his talk with Thompson, Khrushchev made it perfectly plain that he has not by one jot or tittle changed his views on the outstanding issues of the cold war-Berlin, the Congo, Laos, disarmament or nuclear testing. Khrushchev's offer to free Olmstead and McKone came at the very start of the session. He attached three strings: 1) the announcements of the airmen's release must be made simultaneously in Washington and Moscow, with no advance news leaks; 2) the U.S. must publicly declare that it has discontinued its U-2 flights over Soviet territory...
...American popular theater for a long time to come. But he has not had a play of his own on Broadway since the earnest, charming Climate of Eden in 1952. (There were those who loved it, but it flopped.) To get over that humiliation, Playwright Hart began to jot down his recollections. With great skill and an understanding gentleness toward stage folk that all good men harbor for children and the feebleminded, Moss Hart has written one of the best memoirs of this or any other theatrical generation...
...more in the postures of their neuroses. "She did not change again," writes Author Feibleman of the hero's sweetly frigid second wife, "by so much as the amount of cream in her morning coffee." He could have added that the hero himself does not alter by a jot, after a point early in the novel, and neither do his two tormented daughters. Observed briefly, each member of this wealthy Southern family seems whole and healthy; followed for a period of years, each one is seen to be stunned by some calamity beyond all chance of growth or shrinkage...
Rubber Facts. Even Lewis Strauss's supporters agree that if he had been willing to admit to a few errors, he could have assured his confirmation. But by straining to defend every jot and tittle of his record, he got involved in intricate quibbles and rubber-fact evasions that turned several committee Democrats against him. The 9-to-8 committee vote on Strauss, after 16 days of hearings, was far from the 14-to-3 endorsement that an informal poll of committee members had indicated before Strauss appeared as a witness...
...student, disturbed that he was not asked directly to list the advantages of commuting, took the questionnaire's suggestion to jot down comments on the back...