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...raucous comedy of life and essentially detached. Her manner suggested that sex wasn't everything, that exuberance could give vitality to even the middle-aged and the homely. She palpably could never see herself as a romantic, and the arranged embrace at play's end with the second-rank character always seemed a little stiff, as if her corsets were binding...
...slick, self-confident Armenian, Mikoyan has shown less public reverence for Khrushchev than any other second-rank Russian leader. On one occasion during Khrushchev's 1955 visit with Marshal Tito, his Yugoslav hosts watched in open-mouthed disbelief as the bull-like Nikita and the wiry Anastas whiled away a few idle minutes scuffling about in a mock wrestling match. For all his flipness toward the boss, Mikoyan has always voted with Khrushchev in Kremlin disputes, has been one of the strongest advocates inside Russia's ruling Presidium of Khrushchev's policy of easier relations with...
...capsule was a prime example of the kind of advance planning that has turned a small, second-rank outfit into one of the industry's highest flying companies, standing 13th among all defense contractors. McDonnell Aircraft's sales last year hit a record $442 million (up 32%), while net income climbed to a peak $10 million, with still more gains forecast for fiscal 1959. Current backlog alone amounts to $600 million. All this from a fledgling that delivered its first design barely 16 years ago and four years ago fell into the kind of trouble that could have...
...despite the space and incisive consideration given to all the second-rank luminaries of the New Deal and to their alphabetical jurisdictional tangles, Schlesinger is most fascinated by the man who had to make all the final decisions. The verdict--in almost all the multitudinous skirmishes for the President's mind and in the Presidents's conscience--is two fold: for the people and for action. Perhaps a diligent student could achieve what Schlesinger has achieved in compiling--in a topical organization--the wealth of material about the tangible activities of the New Deal. But the decision-taking process...
Among the second-rank late-Elizabethan dramatists was a triumvirate of Thomases--Dekker, Heywood, and Middleton--all of whom expressed a rare deep sympathy with the common man. Of the three Dekker was the most gifted; and Wellesley's Group 20 has wisely chosen for this week's offering his 357-year-old comic masterpiece, The Shoemaker's Holiday (based on a story by another Thomas--Deloney...