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...that the Reds might turn south and attack Savannakhet and Seno. But last week Communist General Vo Nguyen Giap, who directed the Communist thrust to the Mekong, was biding his time. Meanwhile, various spokesmen pointed out that the military value of the enemy operation was almost nil. Secretary Dulles pooh-poohed it in Washington; so did the Ministry of the Associated States in Paris. The fact indeed was that headlines-to the effect that Indo-China had been cut in two-had given a false impression. Yet the headlines marked a victory of another sort for the Communists: in France...
...cancer, 95.5% were men with long histories of cigarette smoking. Other researchers began to check their files on lung cancer patients and found the same thing. In Britain a massive study pointed even more sharply to the same conclusion (TIME, Dec. 22). In Denmark cancer experts who had once pooh-poohed the idea gathered more data and reversed themselves...
...British Medical Association backed up the committee, but the government's Ministry of Health loftily pooh-poohed the doctors' suggestion. "The more efficient the mask." said one spokesman, "the more difficult it is to breathe through, particularly in the case of bronchitic patients." But London shopkeepers were quick to seize on the mask. At the end of two days, many London chemists had sold all their gauze. Mayfair milliners hastily sketched up a line of fashionable "smoggles" in tulle, velvet and chiffon to please the modish dyspneic. One dress designer announced a "bunny mask" modeled on a rabbit...
Like Gilbert & Sullivan's Pooh-Bah, the President stepped over to the French side of his office where the co-Prince could not hear him, and announced that he no longer recognized the leaders of Andorra's Council of the Valleys, who governed in his name. The Pyrenees principality promptly threatened to get even by issuing new postage stamps franked "Sovereign Republic of Andorra...
...have written The Doctor and the Devils, the screenplay for a new British film.* Published as a book, his script combines some of the best virtues of fiction and drama. What is just as important, Poet Thomas remains a poet while doing a job that most highbrow poets would pooh-pooh, unless it were offered to them...