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...share some striking similarities in their public images. Their speeches are clean-cut, utterly devoid of oratorical flamboyance. They are both, though smiling often, fundamentally a new, sober breed of politician. And though many who have seen neither close up regard them both as machine-made organization men, one of the surprises of the campaign is the intensity of their impact in person. The crowds swarm around them, eager to touch or be touched by them...
Blue Sky Estimates. The forecasts were out of line chiefly because some sales estimates were more blue sky than blue chip. The original overoptimism is long gone, replaced by a sober realization that the U.S. economy, while operating at close to a peak level, is not moving forward in line with expectations...
...Communist east sector. Last week, taking another slice, the East Germans made the pass requirement permanent for West Germans visiting East Berlin. Excepted from the rule: foreigners and native Berliners, who cross the border by the thousands each day to work in the east. "This will help to sober up the West German militarists," said Ulbricht...
Author Marquand's feelings about Lord Timothy are mixed. He grudgingly admires some qualities in a self-made Yankee who wasn't as silly as he seemed. But he admits that Dexter "suffered from senile concupiscence, he was ill-educated, and he was vulgar when drunk or sober." He sees him as a caricature of his period, but his dubious hero gives him a chance to revisit a time and a way of life that Marquand found more gracious and attractive than the "five o'clock shadow of mediocrity" that is creeping over Newburyport. It was only...
...morning "coffees," afternoon teas and press conferences. Lady Bird explained Lyndon with wifely conviction: "Lyndon is the same man as before. He has never been embraced by extreme liberals or extreme conservatives." Ethel got an admiring gasp when she was introduced as the mother of seven children. Eunice drew sober attention with a summary of her brother's war record, his qualifications for the presidency ("It would take more than Jimmy Hoffa to scare my brother"), and took on the job of outlining Sister-in-Law Jackie's qualifications for First Lady: "She's 31, speaks five...