Word: runarounds
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...that the networks are giving viewers the annual summer re-runaround, there are a few notable repeats, plus some hot-weather first runs...
This was the old runaround, and neither the Leopoldville regime nor the U.N. was willing to fall for it again. "We have been duped before," huffed the Central Government's Information Minister Joseph Ileo. "We do not want to be duped again." The U.N. was more specific about the binding effect of the pact. "There is no question of ratification." announced a U.N. spokesman grimly. "As far as we are concerned, it is signed, sealed and delivered...
What burns Dr. Fred Whipple, head of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge, is that the U.S. shows Russian scientists its equipment for computing satellite orbits, while the Russians do not reciprocate. Dr. Whipple has just returned from two scientific conferences in Russia, where he got the "runaround" when he asked to see Russian equipment. "We were not shown," he said last week, "any of the satellite computing equipment or centers, in spite of great efforts and many requests to see them. We saw none of the installations except the moon-watch program, which is copied from ours...
...centrifugal pipe-casting machine to the responsible bureau, receives friendly encouragement and has his project submitted to "expert" opinion. Promptly things start going wrong. Lopatkin, who has given up schoolteaching and is now wholly dedicated to the cause of drainpipery, falls victim to a mysterious bureaucratic runaround. Months and years pass in a silence punctuated only by official notifications: "It is not considered possible . . ." "Your complaint has been forwarded to . . ." Occasionally Comrade Lopatkin is summoned for discussion, is shunted from one official to another. Repeatedly he comes close to success only to be tossed into the street again. Gaunt, shabby...
...Fixit. "This here runaround" is a phrase instantly recognizable to hundreds of thousands of frustrated U.S. householders-and so is the "they." "They," in the moment of supreme exasperation that coincides with the collapse of an electric dryer on washday, is the apparently easy going, unhurried individual who is striving manfully to maintain the plumbing in the nation's 28 million homes, the wrench-wielding mechanic who administers to the health of the nation's 50 million autos, its 15 million power lawnmowers, its 375 million electric appliances. "They" is the U.S. Repairman in all his disguises...