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...Waiting Game. Against all this, the Kennedy forces seem, immersed in a profitless Congress session, busy patching up wounds inside the party and working in subterranean fashion on leaders of bloc interests. That is the necessary groundwork of successful organizing and calculated to pay off later, but it is not what inspires now. Kennedy efficiency is accepted: in fact, it is part of the commonly heard phrase that Nixon and Kennedy are two of a kind-organization...
...Tsarapkin, asking for a special Saturday session for the announcement, said the Soviet Union was willing to sign a treaty proposed last month by President Eisenhower banning all nuclear tests except those underground experiments too small to be easily detected-if a "voluntary" moratorium without controls was accepted on subterranean tests. It was a clever move, for though the U.S. has long opposed any test ban that cannot be supervised, Brit ain is strongly in favor of compromise on small underground tests. "An important statement, which will be studied care fully," commented U.S. spokesmen (it was also embarrassing...
Since its original publication in 1900, few researchers have challenged the au thority of Baker's Dictionary.* But Musicologist Slonimsky, a man with an insatiable appetite for facts, has long suspected that the book was studded with subterranean errors. To produce his new edition, he spent four tireless years writing to authorities the world over to verify birth and death dates and fill in biographical lacunae. The Vienna Bureau of Meteorology, for instance, helped him verify the fact that Beethoven died during a violent storm: the weather report of March 26, 1827 noted that a thunderstorm with heavy winds...
...Washington-datelined story in Electronic News reported that the Pentagon "is becoming heavily committed" to a radically new weapons system, added: "The MOLE should put an end to war. No location on earth will be secure from the MOLE." Later stories reported that 1) a special new agency (Subterranean Exploration Agency-SEA > had been set up to handle the new weapon and 2) the prime contract had been awarded to Accuracy Inc. of Waltham, Mass. Accuracy Inc., said the reports, was letting subcontracts for the MOLE's propulsion system ("an atomic engine energized by the molecular disintegration of whatever...
...rich and carries the haunting, dusky legato that still echoes the New Orleans of 40 years ago. It growls through the classic wails of Special Delivery Blues, Mighty Rumbling Blues, St. Louis Blues. In the upper register it is nothing more than a hoarse squeak; but down in the subterranean passages it flows, moans, glides and sighs with a power that has been achieved before-by Bessie Smith, Lizzy Miles-but that is still as rare as a 20-carat diamond...