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...account of the interests for which we were respectively responsible, treated our disagreement as a personal thing. He was hurt by it and grieved . . . This attitude of mind and sentiment, added to the devices of his political tactics, plunged him into fits of anger which gave our relationship some rude shocks. -Charles de Gaulle: The Call to Honor
...Grotonesque prep school, and in line for the presidency of a Wall Street bank. He has always tried to measure up to the principles he learned at his mother's knee -live on the right side of the park, and never attend matinees. But a series of rude intrusions disrupt his neat, parklike existence. First, it turns out that his wife likes the wrong kind of matinee: one afternoon Michael peeks into her bedroom and sees her with one of his junior trust officers. He finds some consolation in a second marriage, but a sordid financial squeeze play threatens...
...Parsons Publisher Clyde Martin Reed Jr., 44, the G.O.P. has its best chance to do it. Reed bears an illustrious Republican name: his father was Kansas Governor (1929-31) and longtime (1939-49) U.S. Senator. Well-known and liked, Clyde Reed Jr. has already restored party morale by the rude primary pasting he handed ex-Governor Fred Hall last spring, the same Fred Hall who went down-rejected by major party leaders-in the primary election two years ago. In office, Docking staked his political fortune on a "soak-industry" budget that he knew all along the Republican-controlled legislature...
...soon as he could afford to, Goren gave up playing for money. He saw that the road to bridgedom's peak lay in teaching and writing-and that a gambler's reputation could be harmful. Today he plays for money only when he feels it would be rude to refuse, and the most he has ever played for was 9? a point (with Aly Khan on the Riviera last year...
Thrown out of Russia last week: Associated Press Correspondent Roy Essoyan, 39, the fourth American to be expelled since April 1956. Essoyan's official sin: "A rude violation of Soviet censorship." Best A.P. guess was that the "violation" was Essoyan's dispatch in August saying that Khrushchev's proposal to refer the Mideast crisis to the U.N. was a "major retreat...