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Arjay Miller bears a marked resemblance to Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, an old friend and onetime associate. Both men have stern faces, brush their dark hair straight back, and are thin-lipped and hard-eyed behind their spectacles. "I'm proud," says Miller, 47, "of any resemblance to...
Teamed in tight-lipped pairs, a squad of determined men ranged the Pentagon last week. They were military gumshoes from the Air Force inspector general's office, sent out on a mission that was both sinister and ridiculous. "It's a damned comic opera,'' snapped a...
Most Russian intellectuals listened in tight-lipped silence as word of Nikita Khrushchev's latest cultural crackdown (TIME, March 22) filtered out to the provinces. Not so the writers and artists of Leningrad, Russia's second city. When the local commissars met to give them the word, the...
Next day, when she drops by his room, she finds him stripped to his shorts, lipped to a cigarette, flipped with ambition to play Jean-Paul Belmondo in a big bedroom scene. "See here," he mutters Breathlessly, "I'm sick of your cold shoulder. It's ruining my...
Powers remained unbothered. "President Kennedy," he said with tight-lipped calm, "has been illadvised. Nobody can tell me that there is anything in our demands that is unreasonable." All Powers wanted was his own kind of contract. "A man must believe in unions to do this. You can't...