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Secretary of State Dulles, not believing that Israel could be intimidated by the sort of blustering Soviet note that the Turks receive and reject nearly every month, summoned Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban to see what the Israelis were up to. Israel did impose a ban on overflights, only to lift it "temporarily" three days later-for U.S. planes only...
...finger in every pie and a foot in every mouth. She tries to fix her husband's business deals and do a little matchmaking on the side. She spouts cliches and misquotations with amazing volubility. It is she who arranges a bridge game before supper because "it would be sort of soothing," and then proceeds to ask whether hearts are higher than spades and whether she "should discard from strength or weakness." As you can see, she does everything from weakness; and one wonders how she ever managed to get Gordon Smith to the altar and keep him from engaging...
After the group recovered, plans for the next show were set. An energetic advertising campaign caused repeated comments of, "these are one hell of a lot of No Exit posters." They appeared almost everywhere; Elsie's managed to acquire four. The same sort of confusion appeared again, and No Exit...
...Ford and Chrysler still show no signs of breaking their united front, have informally agreed that all will close down if one is struck. While the U.A.W. would undoubtedly cry "Lockout!", the companies have legal precedent, of a sort, on their side.* The companies contend that the U.A.W. cannot afford a strike because unemployment and lagging dues have held the union's strike-war chest at $37.8 million, enough for only six weeks of benefit payments in an industry-wide walkout...
...Nobility and love may flower wherever the seeds are sown." What the book has to offer is the authenticity of setting and speech that recalls Nelson Algren's excursion into the same territory. Unfortunately, Author Motley has not written another Man With the Golden Arm-but only a sort of Man With the Wire-Recorder...