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Living with a Goat. "Now let's discuss foreign trade." Khrushchev began, almost at the start. He criticized U.S. restrictions on strategic exports to the Soviet Union, noted that even a lead pencil could be put to military use in drawing a map. When he discussed a new Soviet policy granting manufacturing licenses to foreign industry, Knox interrupted to ask facetiously for a license to make "the latest type of Soviet rocket booster." Khrushchev laughed and jokingly suggested trading design information on Soviet boosters for designs of U.S. nuclear submarines and Polaris missiles, both of which he said...
...times his flair for strong leadership strained the smoothly meshed G.M. System. Some aides thought that he delved too deeply into the affairs of autonomous divisions, and to many employees, the handsome man with pencil-thin mustache seemed autocratic and distant. To all he sometimes seemed ambitious...
...after a long illness; in Manhattan. Duffy insisted that the "best cartoons are against something," caricatured the Ku Klux Klan, Hitler and Communism with such blunt and angry lines that one critic wrote, "If the pen is mightier than the sword, then Duffy's grease pencil is more effective than a well-aimed brick...
...movie stars for community papers. They got onto the glamour gimmick when they visited their first movie studio. The heat caused their hastily made eyebrows to run (they have been sprucing up with cosmetics since pubescence), and the makeup director generously lectured them on the proper use of eyebrow pencil. "Were we embarrassed!" recalls Reba, re-creating her blush. But next day they wrote up the incident in their column and were deluged with letters asking for more tips...
Swift saw the situation and answered reassuringly in a soft urban fog made more casual by the experienced slur of a 55-year-old. "Is it a lead pencil or a mechanical pencil?" he asked. At least 3,000 tons of worry visibly lifted from the ad man's forehead. "Is it round or hexagonal?" Swift went on gently. "Does it have an eraser?" He got the job. And what did the pencil finally sound like? "Literate," recalls Swift, "-and thin...