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...office as a weekly staff meeting, a Cabinet meeting, a State Department dinner for the President of Ecuador, a string of office appointments. Through it all, he seldom looked tired. Whenever the pace began to wear, a quick pull at the department's rowing machine and a shower restored...
...prosperous-looking men, most of them pallid and paunchy, drove up to a construction site in Salt Lake City, and began mixing and pouring concrete for a building floor. Two hours later, tired but happy, they hopped back into their Buicks and Chryslers, drove home for a shave, shower and breakfast. Then they headed downtown to their regular jobs as lawyers, bankers, doctors and businessmen...
...featherbedded ways. At present, British workers are immobile, hence many areas suffer from a severe labor shortage; plants will do anything-including slowing down production-to keep workers. British industry would have to take drastic steps to reorganize and re-equip. Many British businessmen agree that the "bracing cold shower." as Macmillan describes European competition, may flush inefficient firms right out of business. But, Macmillan argues, Britain is facing that competition anyway, and will be able to meet it under better conditions if she joins. In the Market, "the test will be in the straight competition of brains, productive capacity...
...this time, you probably know how it all happened, how Kaline's diving three-string catch of Elsten Howard's low liner saved a Detroit victory and how, after lying prostrate in short right-center for five minutes, Kaline walked off the field--only to pass out in the shower and learn he had a broken collar-bone. Always a super-star, the 27-year-old Kaline was enjoying the best season's start of his career, carrying the slumping Tigers on his back. The lead was too heavy...
...best, Author Jack is as droll as the early Evelyn Waugh he so obviously admires. The book has some fine set pieces of English comic writing: e.g., Bandy's defeat at the hands of an antique bathtub armed with such fixtures as "Douche, Spray, Wave, Plunge, Hot, Cold, Shower, Fountain, Plug, Waterfall and Sprinkler." But Author Jack does more than play it for laughs. Men die on barbed wire and a hand sticks out of the water in the bottom of a shell hole. ("It seemed to be waving at us cheerfully. Rollo shook hands with it.") This mingling...