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...happens, Pusey's relief at finding two new deans was short-lived. With the resignation last week of John Coolidge as director of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, he must get back on the telephone, scan the country, solicit letters of recommendation for a man to head the country's best university museum...
...Down. For all its unpleasantness, the Bellow affair brought Podhoretz the attention he craved. He got review assignments from The New Yorker and Partisan Review, which enhanced his club membership. And like many other members, he carefully cultivated his status. Every morning, he would scan the invisible "stockmarket report" on reputations and measure the gains and losses. By implication, he suggests that other members did the same. "Did so-and-so have dinner at Jacqueline Kennedy's apartment last night? Up five points. Was so-and-so not invited by the Lowells to meet the latest visiting Russian poet...
Even when business is good, business men scan the economic horizon for portents of approaching trouble. And these days, as the dreary deadlock persists between Lyndon Johnson and Congress over taxing and spending, businessmen view the portents as troublesome. Seldom in recent years have they felt more uncomfortably aware that the whole U.S. economy can be crucially affected by a political impasse...
...gourmet editor (Gig Young) on the rueful side of 40, who thinks that variety is the spice of sex life until he meets The Girl. Barbara Ferris is a fetching house urchin who wears her microskirt so short that the evening seems like a continual panty raid. Her undies scan better than the dialogue, which unravels along such lines as, She: "You only want me for one thing." He: "Yes, but what a lovely thing." If the polish is in Ferris' frame, the spit is in her delivery. She has a snort like a tugboat, she can carve...
...first suggestion that the Russians were installing ballistic missiles in Cuba was published by the magazine. Three months ago, it broke the news that the Soviets were shipping surface-to-surface missiles to North Viet Nam to be fired across the demilitarized zone. Russia's top military officers scan every issue. Soviet Aircraft Designer Andrei Tupolev told Hotz at a Paris air show: "Your pictures of my airplanes are better than the ones I get back home...