Word: sidestepped
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Pocket Aqueducts. Last year she and Ponti acquired a chalet in Bürgenstock overlooking Lake Lucerne, partly to establish themselves as residents of Switzerland in order to sidestep Italy's haphazard tax code. They keep an immense apartment in Rome. They have also bought and are refashioning a 16th century villa eleven miles southeast of the city. It is on 18 acres and has 50 rooms. Before they are through, it will cost them $2,000,000. The place sits on catacombs that will become the world's weirdest wine cellar. Sophia and Carlo will each have...
...nervous young Prince Norodom Sihanouk. Alternatively, there was talk of finding some other neutral nations to fill out the commission. But the U.S. had obviously bent about as far as it intended to. In fact, the more reliable anti-Communists of Southeast Asia were openly miffed. "The neutrals sidestep the responsibilities in the area and the really tough decisions," griped a Thai diplomat. "And then you keep inviting them back to settle everybody else's affairs...
...maintains a mental stockpile of maxims and homilies. During his French tour last month, a Russian-speaking newsman, K. S. Karol, accompanied Nikita on the inspection of the Renault factory. Writing in the New Statesman, Karol noted that Khrushchev, far from being quick at repartee, uses his jokes to sidestep awkward questions rather than meet them headon. In fact, Khrushchev seldom listens to what his interlocutors are saying. In the midst of some innocuous remarks by the auto workers, Khrushchev suddenly launched into a homily on the happy lot of the Russian workers...
...cracked back: "I got a wire from my father that said, 'Dear Jack, Don't buy one vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'll pay for a landslide.' " Then he swiped at one of the candidates who had decided to sidestep the primaries: "Senator [Stuart] Symington said he hoped Wisconsin would be a good, clean fight-with no survivors...
...ingenuity has produced only a slogan ("food bin of freedom"). Administration insiders say that Nixon, with the President's tacit blessing, is planning to speak out with a farm program of his own, departing from Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson's rigidities enough to sidestep the massive dislike that Benson has piled up among the farmers...