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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...behind his boss. While McNamara, with an eye on the clock, slashes away at his paper work, Gilpatric sits suavely behind an unlittered desk, almost always has time for some casual talk with a visitor. When McNamara begins to whirl out a blizzard of "snowflakes"-Pentagonese for his single-page directives that often demand prompt action-Gilpatric may help dig out a snowed-under officer by getting an impossible deadline date extended...
...Canadian newspapers this week, full-page ads purchased by Boston's near-bankrupt Northeast Airlines will thankfully proclaim: "Welcome aboard. Howard Hughes!" After stalling off enigmatic Industrialist Hughes for two solid years, the Civil Aeronautics Board last week grudgingly authorized his Hughes Tool Co. to buy 56% of Northeast's outstanding stock from New York's Atlas Corp. The consideration that finally turned the tide in Hughes's favor, said the CAB in its caustic decision, was "not whether Hughes Tool Co. could provide efficient management, but whether Northeast would have any management...
...completely muddies the complex events taking place in Africa. Ruark obviously considers black Africans unfit to govern themselves. In Uhuru, Africans are portrayed as civilized on the surface but ready at the first opportunity to revert to savagery. Ruark's sympathies are all with the white settlers. On page after page, the whites denounce "nigs," "coons," "wogs" and even "Chinks" until the vituperation becomes a bore...
...year abroad without a copy of his still-banned Tropic of Capricorn or Rosy Crucifixion hidden in the soiled laundry. But he is also the author most often skipped. That is to say, the almost unvarying gait for getting through one of Miller's books is: read four pages, skip four pages. Cynics will suggest that this is because the dirty passages in the Tropics or Sexus, Nexus and Plexus come at four-page intervals. This is shallow thinking. Actually the canny reader skips through Miller not so much to concentrate on naughtiness as to avoid what comes between...
Sweet Bird of Youth. A bottom-drawer Tennessee Williams play has been made into good Hollywood fare, with a nice scenic feel for the Gulf Coast and rock-solid performances by Geraldine Page as a has-been star and Paul Newman as her kept male...