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...friend started to answer, but, before he could get three words out of his mouth, the clubbie cut him off with the drippingly sarcastic remark, " This will do a lot to end the war." In others words, he didn't really care what was going on up at Mass Ave. A confrontation is a confrontation, and the clubbie had his party line on that subject all nearly prepared...
...corporate clients that they would be "bombed" by the White House if they put through planned price boosts. In some cases, he says the clients did not raise prices; in others they did, but told him later that they wished they had not. After Nixon's press-conference remark discarding the jawbone, Rinfret sent telegrams to all his corporate clients advising them to go ahead and make any price boosts they had in mind. Some...
...result of liberal good will on the part of whites. Although a white often self-consciously displays his lack of prejudice by dancing with blacks, he sometimes unwittingly reveals a hidden attitude by praising his partner's sense of rhythm. "Blacks got rhythm." That kind of remark infuriates Negroes. "It's a phrase that makes me want to turn and stalk out of the room," says a Boston girl. "I know as many lousy black dancers as white ones." Well-meaning whites cause other problems in social gatherings. "I work in an office where...
...refusing to commit Cambodia to either the Communist or anti-Communist camps, Sihanouk has long antagonized cold warriors on both sides. One day he may remark that "Communism is inevitable in Asia. When? Oh, not tomorrow. The Chinese don't think in years, not even in lustrums. They have time with them." The next day he may complain that Chinese children in Cambodia's schools "bring in Mao Tse-tung's books and carry out all types of subversive activities...
...though, is Harry Gould, who portrays the guileful, geriatric district attorney. Wearing a rumpled suit and a feral gleam, he baits witnesses with soft-voiced ruthlessness and brazenly plays on the jury's sympathies. His well-modulated performance demonstrates a principle that jurists and film makers alike should remark: solid courtroom drama ought to be that and nothing more...