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...United (Suzanna Leigh), Lufthansa (Christiane Schmidt-mer) and Air France (Dany Saval). "You don't need a housekeeper-you need a Univac," snaps Tony's maid-of-all-work, Thelma Ritter, who schlumps through the premises changing linens, juggling menus, and scornfully polishing off a collection of stale sex jokes...
...Dwan Gallery. A veritable apotheosis of the ordinary, it is West Coast Artist Kienholz's reconstruction of a favorite Los Angeles artists' greasy spoon, a kind of frozen happening quickened by sounds (random conversations, taped on the spot, and jukebox background music) and circulating odors (stale bacon grease) pushed around...
Portions of the book have already appeared in LIFE and ten other publications, and consequently his opinions of the State Department as "a bowl of jelly" and of Secretary of State Dean Rusk as a man who "seemed actually to prefer stale to fresh ways of saying things" are already well known. On page after page, he betrays his view of Rusk as a man who is almost always silent because he almost never has anything to say-and he suggests that Kennedy felt the same way. What did Rusk think of Italy's impending apertura a sinistra (opening...
...disillusionment. A 40-year-old company president wrote Columbia that he felt "wasted in working for material gain only." A department head in a large engineering firm complained that his job entailed "a continuous round of panics with little ultimate purpose or meaning." "My job was a boring, stale thing to me," said Mrs. Carolyn Sadow, one of 14 people who have been through the New Careers program...
...just an upstart." Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Michael Musmanno, author of The Story of the Italians in America charged that the Yalemen "have gone into the moss-covered kitchen of rumor and, on the broken-down stove of wild speculation, fueled by ethnic prejudices have warmed over the stale cabbage of Leifs discovery of America." In the House, New York Democrat Benjamin Rosenthal introduced a bill to make Columbus Day a national legal holiday...