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...pull together the human resources to deal with it." That pleasure was put to the test last week, as Rockefeller withstood the most intense interrogation of his career, covering almost every possible substantive issue and personal idiosyncrasy. Fresh from its impeachment triumph, the committee was plainly determined to outdo its Senate counterpart, the Rules Committee, in dissecting the Rockefeller persona and finding out what makes it tick. Rockefeller, on the other hand, was no less concerned with clearing his name of any hint of scandal or conflict of interest. It was a rigorous confrontation of intellect and ideology in which...
...seems, across the Aegean and the Mediterranean, losing and finally regaining his wife and daughter in the process. Before their reunion, the wife becomes presumably the only matron in a tem ple of vestal virgins, the daughter certainly the only virgin in a brothel - peaks of survival which may outdo even Pericles' own. Shakespeare, the scholars say, wrote only the last three acts, and perhaps ought to be forgiven for them...
...good as the next fellow" is not always a realistic or even noble sentiment. Equality as similarity is a hopeless goal, as any plain girl realizes when she watches the progress of a pretty woman down a street. People are favored by nature, birth or fortune; they outdo others by talent, effort and luck. Many equality arguments turn on trying to redress the inequities of "them as has gits...
...loud whistle. It was the only time I ever heard General de Gaulle whistle." Malraux hastened to add that he, for one, does not consider the scrub-up his supreme accomplishment. "My greatest coup," he said, "is that the Restaurant Lasserre in Paris created Pigeon André Malraux to outdo another restaurant, Le Grand Véfour, which had invented Pigeon Prince Rainier...
...annual lifetime achievement award. If last year's AFI salute to John Ford is any indication, the ceremony (which CBS is broadcasting in condensed form five days after it occurred) will be boring and corny. Last year, legions of Hollywood celebrities tripped over themselves and President Nixon trying to outdo each other in paying soapy homage to Ford. Nixon will not be there this year; that alone will make the ceremony more bearable. But the ceremony itself does not matter; what counts is that AFI is honoring Cagney. The tribute has triggered a like response from WKBG-TV: The Cambridge...