Word: slickness
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This is a side of slick Chou En-lai that the world has never been permitted to see. His more familiar talent-the ability to bob, weave and pirouette-was developed in party intrigues. He sided or seemed to side with one faction (e.g., Li Lisan, once the party boss) only to wind up in the end, unhurt and at the elbow of the ultimate winner, Mao Tse-tung, sometime librarian at Peking University. With his Whampoa training, Chou shared command of Mao's peasant armies with Chu Teh, the wily soldier whom Chou had the wisdom to recruit...
...crippling blow when its No.¹ driver, Giuseppe ("Nino") Farina, in one of its hot, new 4.9-liter cars, cracked up-and out. Farina escaped with a broken arm and nose. With the top opposition out of the way, World Champion Alberto Ascari, driving a Lancia over the rain-slick course, roared home first, half an hour ahead of the field. Average speed: 86.6 m.p.h. It was the first Lancia victory in seven years. It was also the first time that World Champion Ascari had ever managed to finish a car in the grueling race...
...Senate crime hearings, which starred such unforgettable characters as Bible-quoting Senator Charles Tobey, Underworld Moll Virginia Hill and Frank ("The Hands") Costello, but the cast was fascinating in its own way. There were McCarthy, alternately menacing and benign, doodling or rolling his eyes at the ceiling; slick-haired Roy Cohn, licking his lips and buzzing in the boss's ear; Secretary Stevens, eager but harassed, his horn-rimmed glasses forever sliding down his nose; Arkansas' Senator McClellan. rough and ready, if sometimes confused, the committee's angry man; Senator Mundt, jowls aquiver, chugging at his pipe...
...Newsdealers Association of Greater New York, which represents more than 1,000 newsstands and stationery stores. Crime-and-horror comics, said Richter, are forced by the distributors on many newsstand dealers who do not want to sell them. They are often included in the same wired bundles with slick-paper magazines, even though they have not been ordered. If the retailer returns an "unreasonable amount," said Richter, "he can be cut off completely" from his supply of fast-selling, popular magazines...
...demonstration is generally sound, and the people are not overdrawn. In his chronicle of one woman, Playwright Funt is examining a citified, slick, aware, pedigreed-dog-eat-dog way of life. It needs more vibrantly expressive treatment in stage form; yet it rings truer, even as it stands, than most things that adorn the Broadway stage...