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Lover Come Back (Universal-International). Rock Hudson is a low-principled adman who has "sown so many wild oats he can qualify for a farm loan." Doris Day is a high-powered adwoman who never gets behind in her work. They both go after the same account. Doris concentrates on the client's business; Rock pays attention to his pleasure, and he gets the account. Furious, Doris vows to steal an account from Rock-the Vip account. What she doesn't know: there is no such product as Vip. Rock made it up to please a chorus girl...
Tossing aside the vast services to mankind that enlightened colonialism has performed, Sartre suggested that France had sown the wind and reaped the whirlwind. He intoned: "While our former colonial subjects are discovering their humanity, we seem to be losing ours. We gained our manhood at their expense; now they are gaining their manhood at ours. The colonized peoples are rebuilding their lives while we - ultras and liberals, French settlers in Algeria and Frenchmen at home - find ourselves disintegrating. Fury and fear are naked everywhere...
Addressing cotton growers in Tashkent, Khrushchev complained that although sown acreage had increased, production had decreased. "But those with low yields don't look for a smaller spoon at the table," he said. "Maybe such people should be given short pants and even wear them in winter so everyone could see that they hadn't grown up enough to wear normal-size pants. That's a joke, of course, comrades,'' added Jolly Nikita, "but I would like you to find a grain of truth in that joke...
...Shigesaburo Maeo of Japan's ruling Liberal-Democratic Party, "but must reaffirm our determination to continue resistance against such inhuman conduct." Said Philippines President Carlos P. Garcia: "If Russia does not stop her defiant disregard of the feelings of entire humanity, she will inevitably reap what she has sown." Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan spoke for the entire free world when he said: "If Khrushchev's reason was to spread panic among our people, then he has signally failed...
...malevolent death bore down on ordinary prairie folk to whom Author Siebel assigned hardly a pleasant, let alone a happy, moment. For the Time Being is relatively upbeat. No one dies. Yet no one lives, either; like a quarter section of Spoon River Anthology, the human crop is sown with indifference and raised in contumely. It is only because Author Julia Siebel speaks with an oldfashioned, simple authority now almost absent from U.S. fiction that her lugubrious chronicles about doomed small folk deserve to be read...