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Vanishing American. Despite such slips, Lolly's habitual double-checking usually ensures that the kernel at the heart of the item is correct-though the details may be a little mixed. In rumor-ridden Hollywood she is respected for refusing to print a rumor if she gets a flat denial-a courtesy that not all columnists can afford. She usually punishes those who offend her by keeping them out of her column rather than lambasting them in it. But her wrath, when aroused, has always been formidable. When Producer Nunnally Johnson outraged her dignity, Lolly vented her spleen...
...approval, Fulbright cites Sir Anthony Eden's recent proposal that the Atlantic communities form a "political general staff," akin to the Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II, to meet today's monolithic Communist threat. But Fulbright would carry the idea a step further: for the kernel of his plan, he turns to 19th century history and the remarkable alliance of Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia-and later, defeated France as well-built at the Congress of Vienna in the wake of the Napoleonic wars...
Plowed Under. The kernel of the New Frontier proposals calls for establishment of a "national farmer advisory committee'' for each farm commodity or group of related commodities. Each committee would draw up a "supply adjustment program" for its commodity, if it took a notion to do so. The turnip committee, say. would draft a turnip plan and submit it to the turnip growers. If two-thirds of them approved it, it would automatically become law, at the expense of consumers and taxpayers, unless Congress vetoed the program within 60 days-and what Congressman would vote against turnips...
...experiencing significant changes in components of our gross national product." The new industries on the rise, such as electronics and missiles, use comparatively little steel; thus some experts feel that the index statisticians lay too much emphasis on the steel industry. Some transistors, for example, smaller than a kernel of corn, sell for $200 to $300, or more than a ton of steel. And there is a shift in industries themselves. In Los Angeles, where aircraft-industry employment has dropped 12%, or nearly 3,000 workers a month, since last October, new jobs in electronics and missile fields boosted employment...
...Paris to Pleurs, 84 miles southeast, he was visiting the village where Malinovsky had been billeted with Russian troops serving on the western front during World War I. When Malinovsky pointed out the hayloft in which he had slept, Khrushchev swiftly moved in to extract every possible kernel of corn. "Cows below and a future marshal above," he said. "Well, cows make excellent heating appliances...