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...gyrations, you're looking beautiful today, Dave." After a slightly rocky start, Bush even felt bold enough to mockingly chastise one journalist's query about "the eavesdropping program." "We call it the 'terrorist surveillance program,'" he interjected, eyebrows wriggling. Then there was a forcefully jocular exchange with Sheryl Gay Stolberg of the New York Times, who explained her rather informal greeting - "Hi, Mr. President" - by saying "We're a friendly newspaper." The gathered reporters started giggling even before Bush could deliver the pat punchline: "Let me just say, I'd hate to see unfriendly...
...Bush's joshing with the press hardly indicates he's friendly with them. If anything, it's a reminder that he's the one with authority to snap towels. (Something about President Bush's fraternity-guy demeanor demands that particular colloquialism.) His back-and-forth with Stolberg, for instance, started because Bush clearly objected to a greeting with any number of syllables less than two. This, moments after flirting with David Gregory. Don't forget who's in charge, okay...
...nightmare started in the West German town of Stolberg, near Aachen, in 1954, when laboratory chemists synthesized the drug for the firm of Chemie Gruenenthal GmbH. After three years of testing with animals, thalidomide was judged so safe that it was approved for over-the-counter sale, with no prescription needed, throughout West Germany...
Much of the discussion at the meeting centered on the issue of dissatisfaction on the part of other member colleges with the NSA. Irving J. Stolberg, International Campus Administrator for NSA, stated that "I think Harvard has more prestige and a bigger name than most universities," but he added, "I don't think that a number of schools will follow Harvard's withdrawal...
Died. Benjamin Stolberg, 59, labor historian (The Story of the C.T.O., Tailor's Progress, a study of the I.L.G.W.U.), of a heart attack; in Manhattan. An anti-Stalinist leftist, Stolberg aimed his savage epigrams at both Republicans and the New Deal, management & labor...