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...control the revolution. Their next step could prove crucial. Says a U.S. expert on Iran: "If things should reach the point where the revolution is threatened, and the idea of an Islamic republic is in jeopardy, it would not be surprising to see Khomeini call for an armed putdown of his erstwhile allies." In short, there is still no final answer to the question of who rules Iran...
...Macho editors, who would never put such a question to a man, still send women's page reporters to interview her, and well-meaning businessmen still give her head-patting lectures to explain balance sheets. Whitman smiles at the condescension and responds with her ultimate putdown: a stunning soliloquy on international economics...
...against the glass. "I am getting to know the rich." Hemingway told Max Perkins and Critic Mary Colum at lunch. And it was Colum who replied, "The only difference between the rich and the other people is that the rich have more money." Making Fitzgerald the victim of this putdown, says Bruccoli, was one of several instances when Hemingway adjusted embarrassing truths to preserve his image...
...slights. Never far out of camera range, stalking the podium like some watchful mother bear anxious for her brood, Bella Abzug mellowed considerably for the occasion. She even joked about the Congressman who scoffed that the girls had gone to Houston for boozing and carousing. Abzug's zinging putdown: "I have attended many meetings, but I have never heard any women ask for call boys...
Playboy's announced decision to give up those readers primarily interested in porn [July 4] is hardly the same as not staying in touch with society's "shifting sexual standards." In response to the more personal part of TIME'S patronizing putdown ("surrounded by young beauties, he looks a dour sybarite"), I can only say that Contributor Thomas Griffith obviously has his own very personal definition of "square." Oh to be as hip as you swinging newsmagazine men in New York...