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...think of the theory of "inherent" presidential powers? The judge smiled: "A sacred right, the right to property . . ." Not satisfied, unfriendly Senators bored in: Can the President 1) proclaim an emergency, and then 2) act under that proclamation without check? McGranery thought it would be unfair to give an offhand opinion. Did McGranery agree that the Constitution is never suspended? Still smiling, long fingers folded, the judge said: It would be ridiculous for him to give an immediate answer. "It would take two weeks...
Nonetheless, McCarthy left his listeners gasping at his bravery when he challenged Duran, Jessup, Acheson & Co. to sue him for libel, since "there is no immunity that surrounds this podium here today." But again the McCarthy tongue had been quicker than the ear. In cold transcript, his apparently offhand statements turned out to be well protected by testimony already in the legislative record, or phrased behind a lawyer's calculated vagueness...
...ways. First there is the information itself, for which sources have been evaluated and cross-checked. In developing the story, facts & figures are organized into their proper place, told as they affect men, not as they look in an account book. Sometimes, for instance, a man's offhand remark in a bar may tell more about him than all his political speeches...
...hair in a girlish bob, and gazes at the world through clear hazel eyes. In a medium where pose and posture are the standards, she is almosl startlingly forthright. Painfully self-conscious under scrutiny, uninhibited among close friends, Barbara can cuss like a longshoreman and make it sound as offhand as a schoolgirl's "Jeepers." The effect of such artlessness on the stage is to make practically anything Barbara does seem credible and convincing. One mark of her real talent lies in the fact that she can be herself and still translate the flick of an eyelash...
With that offhand explanation, Mike Di Salle last week issued Ceiling Price Regulation 7, a new step in the fight to stabilize sky-high prices. The order wiped out the general price freeze for about 200,000 retail items and substituted instead a system exhumed from the tomb of World War II's OPA. The new plan, "retail margin control," specifies that dollars & cents price margins may be no greater than those prevailing Feb. 24. The plan applies to clothing, shoes, furniture, rugs, bedding-in short, about 75% of the things department stores sell-and affects some...