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...first weeks in the Polaris program, he demonstrated a massive capacity for work and a monumental scorn for the little details that might slow him down. He had no time for shufling papers through IN and OUT boxes. He kept a clean desk, stuffed all incoming mail in a small drawer and remarked: "When I can't close the drawer, someone around here isn't doing enough work." As he recruited people into the Special Projects group, Red gave them all-including their families-a patriotic pep talk on the importance of their mission. Whenever anyone seemed...
...sell Adlai with glamour. Outside, Actress Mercedes Mc-Cambridge, dressed in the costume of a Golden Girl hostess, helped light fires un der ragtag groups of everyday Steven-sonites ("We'll storm that place!"). Over the years, the proper Stevensonians had saved their loftiest political scorn not for those bedrock Republicans, Adolphe Menjou and John Wayne, but for Peter Lawford's Kooky Klucks Klan...
...downgraded Stalin now, in effect, downgraded Lenin too? Bulgarian Party Boss Todor Zhivkov, rising in his turn to hail the supreme chief, pronounced Khrushchev's speech "historic." The other satellite chieftains chimed in. But Communist China's Delegate Peng Chen was not impressed. Peking newspapers heaped scorn on "modern revisionists" who, "frightened out of their wits by the imperialists' blackmail of nuclear war, exaggerated the consequences of the destructiveness of nuclear war and begged imperialism for peace at any cost." The same newspapers noted only in a sentence that Khrushchev had also made some remarks and received...
...dawdled along month after month with no bills on the calendar," said Pennsylvania's Joe Clark to a well-filled Senate Chamber. "Now we find ourselves in a hectic position of disarray, trying desperately to pass enough legislation so that we will not be held up to the scorn of the country...
Implicit in De Gaulle's tribute to the British version of parliamentarianism was his longstanding contempt for the system as it is practiced in France. But ironically, in the midst of his triumphal visit to Britain, his scorn had brought his popularity at home to its lowest ebb since he took power...