Word: ployes
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...vanished from the public scene by stepping down as head of state-though retaining his all-powerful chairmanship of the Communist Party. This withdrawal by no means meant that Mao was accepting responsibility for the failure of the communes; it was merely the first step in the classic Communist ploy of disengagement from catastrophe. Since it was now obvious that the planners had been right and the sloganeers wrong, reason would suggest that the sloganeers should suffer. But the Communist solution was to purge the most outspoken of the planners; then the party could majestically change course. Last April...
...desperately needed to finance its new jet fleet, the consortium obliged Hughes to place his 78% of TWA's stock in a trusteeship. Last week, clearly unfazed by his setback at TWA, wily Howard Hughes, 55, made a dramatic bid for re-entry into commercial aviation. His newest ploy: a request to the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to acquire control of Boston's Northeast Airlines...
...looks as if he were pushing 19. Small and compact, with a boyish shock of unarranged light brown hair, bright pannikin eyes and a look-ma smile, he seems to have been formed by a head-on collision between Mickey Rooney and John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He is the little ploy next door, and the vast delight of How to Succeed is in watching this studiously naive charming cub cheetah knock the spots off a pack of ravenous yes-men. After each victory Morse turns to the audience with a collaborative expression on his face that somehow touches a sympathetic nerve...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is put together as precisely as a fine watch by the jeweler of U.S. musicomedy jokesmiths, Abe Burrows. As the up-from-window-washer hero, Robert Morse is the funniest ploy-boy in the history of officemanship...
Poor Little Mexican. Gonzalez, a suave stumper who likes to drop tidbits from classical literature into his speeches, bore down heavily on his pocho (Mexican born in the U.S.) background, tried hard to represent himself as an underdog. It was a difficult ploy-especially in a district that has a large Mexican-American population and that hasn't sent a Republican to Congress since 1920-until Dwight Eisenhower arrived to stump for Goode. Then Gonzalez opened the tear ducts: "They brought down their big 50-megaton bomb to drop on this poor little Mexican...