Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mono Lisa's Smile. From his briefcase dour West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer produced a pile of secret German intelligence documents describing the military build-up of Russia and its satellites; he listed fact & figure evidence of "the tragic disparity" between Eastern power and Western ability to resist it. "I have been watching these things for many years," warned Adenauer, "and I must say there has never been a threat so great from the East. There is no time to lose...
Under De Gasperi's private urgings and Adenauer's public alarms, Georges Bidault, the diplomat with the Mona Lisa smile, announced that France had no intention of reneging on the EDC idea, which it had proposed in the first place. It considered its "protocols" to be not amendments to the treaty, said Bidault, but only "interpretive" addenda which need not be ratified, need not even cause any delay in prompt ratification of the treaty in the six West European Parliaments. What is more, said he, France is perfectly willing to consider changes in the "protocols" themselves...
...fill the job he dipped into the Communist penalty box and came up with Gerhart Eisler, the shifty little Comintern agent who recently lost his job as East German propaganda chief, and was presumed on the way out. He explained his long absence from the political arena without a smile: "I had to have my teeth repaired." Then he turned to the refugees. They were all "underworld characters, trash proletarians, black marketeers and scum . . ." but anyway, Eisler was going to save them from the horrors of Western imperialism...
...their very own barbershop not far off the Senate floor, U.S. Senators can get free haircuts, shaves and shoeshines. Their needs are cared for with a smile by three barbers, a shoeshine boy and a porter, all on steady Government salaries. Last fortnight the root of all evil temporarily upset this happy situation...
...prances up to the mike, Rosemary drops her cough drop into her palm, makes a moue at the control room and opens her mouth. If the tune has a bounce, her slim Irish face lights up and her trim, spring-legged figure jigs happily; her smile can be heard as well as seen. If the words are sad, her face takes on a little-girl-lost look. The moment her stint at the mike is through, she pops her candy back in her mouth, swigs at a bottle of Coke...