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Since Khrushchev's one-man show came to an end, his successors have replaced his shoe-pounding, maxim-spouting ebullience with deliberateness that has long since crossed over the border into dullness. Conservative, guarded, suspicious, they exemplify a whole generation of bureaucratic middlemen. Writes British Kremlinologist Robert Conquest: "Vacillation, the attempt to combine contradictory drives, has been the pattern. The predominant motive seems to be a desire to avoid all change and reform in the hope that no crisis will spring up and that the contradictions within their society and economy will go away...
...citation accompanying his honorary degree from the University of Cincinnati ticked off a singular list of occupations: "Delivery boy, dancing teacher, shoe salesman, soda jerk and amateur prizefighter-which last activity may share responsibility for his famous profile." Cracked Bob Hope, L.H.D.: "Who wrote that? Crosby...
...Both were researched by Genevieve Wilson. Says Sidey: "This was an old-fashioned power conflict between Hill and White House - the classic Washington struggle. It had emotion, eleventh-hour suspense, marvelous characters like Martha Mitchell, and a whole stageful of bit players. In the end, with the application of shoe leather and hard sense, the story al most reported itself...
...routine reality. Sample, on the perils of being without an ordinary pencil: "If Onassis knocked on the door and wanted to buy our house for a highway phone booth, I would have to sign the agreement with (a) an eyebrow pencil, (b) yellow crayon, (c) cotton swab saturated in shoe polish, (d) an eyedropper filled with cake coloring, or (e) a sharp fingernail dipped in my own blood...
Bolivian journalists have more to fear than tricky decrees. Alfredo Alexander, publisher of La Paz's morning Hoy and evening Ultima Hora, was with his wife at his elegant estate when a man with a visor cap and large dark glasses delivered a shoe-box-size package. It contained a bomb, and minutes later the explosion killed the couple, sending shock waves through city rooms across the continent...