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...than that, and on the way, Author De Vries has punned the reader to a pulp, winded him with laughs, and done what only truly funny writers can do: exhibit man, frail and vulnerable, with such true ludicrousness that what starts as a belly laugh winds up as a rueful smile...
...statistics. In the Quebec wilderness, 325 miles north of Montreal, Canadian National Railways is building a $35 million line to Chibougamau, a newly developed copper field. At Hamilton, Ont., the big Steel Co. of Canada, which has spent $100 million on new mills since 1950, reported with rueful pride that it was a full year behind on some orders -and promptly laid on an additional $70 million expansion program. Western oil production increased nearly one-third during the year, and great new developments for Canada's petroleum industry lay right ahead: a $350 million pipeline eastward...
...Salvador, for a night's rest and rueful remarks that he was just an "unemployed traveler," and that it was "very improbable" he would ever return to Paraguay...
...play, The Desk Set, after a reasonably bright start, goes steadily downhill by really going nowhere at all. As a feed-box for Shirley Booth, there is more to be said for it. She has seldom been better at the rueful smile or the sugar-coated sting. It would be inaccurate to say that in The Desk Set she does everything but recite Hiawatha, because she does recite Hiawatha. She also recites, in jive rhythm, Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight. She floors an efficiency expert with her knowledge, she has a laughing fit, she has a drinking scene. Again...
...them." It was his way of calling attention to the report that Russia has been offering to supply Egypt with arms, no strings attached, and perhaps even to finance its dam. So far Nasser has rejected the offer. Was he thinking of reconsidering the offer? The answer was a rueful grin and a teasing shrug...