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Last week's Topic A was zoning. Adroitly, Commissioner Howse drew from a witness an admission that Commissioner Stevens had been privately consulted on a city zoning matter in which he had a possible interest. "It's just another attempt to smear me," retorted Stevens, whose nerves were already jangled because his vending-machine business is in deep trouble with the state sales-tax authorities. "I would hate to bring up the thousands of people who have conferred with Commissioner Howse on matters like this." Mayor E. E. Baird banged his gavel, declared the meeting in recess...
...could clean its own house, heavy-handedly suggested that it was time for the McClellan committee to go out of business. He was promptly and loudly supported by A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who called the report "a disgraceful example of the use of sensationalism in an attempt to smear the trade-union movement." Like Pipe Fitter McNamara, Plumber Meany pointed out that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. has kicked out the Teamsters and a couple of other corrupt unions. Neither mentioned that organized labor allowed its ugly situation to grow uglier for years-until the McClellan committee came along...
...twirled the volume knob on the stereophonic sound system until the chandeliers began to rattle. They gave it some of the smoothest Technicolor that has ever creamed a moviegoer's eyeballs; but then, gripped by the fear that all this would be too subtle, they decided to smear "mood" all over the big scenes by shooting them through filters. Result: too often the actors are tinted egg yellow, turtle green-and sometimes phosphorescent fuchsia...
...Cincinnati, when local newspapers ignored a smear campaign against a Negro running for re-election to the city council, radio station WSAI raised its voice to chastise both the whisperers and the silent press. The one-shot unscheduled broadcast did not put Candidate Theodore Berry back into office, reported a WSAI spokesman, but it brought more than 1,000 letters and phone calls, mostly approving, and goaded the newspapers into a defense of their silence...
...more typical of the show as a whole was Robert Motherwell's entry-loud, messy, vigorous and oblique. Part of the title-Je t'aime, No. 11-A-was scrawled with grey mud against a background of black and orange bars. Beneath the letters was a bloody smear, at the point of what might be an upright brush. It did seem an odd way to say: "I love...