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...line Allen Drury could never have invented, sums up the victory: "We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked." It was a statement, wrote Bartlett and Alsop, that will go down with "such immortal phrases as 'Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes.' " But the Post compensates for the lack of a surprise ending by hammering away at the villain. The Munich quote is bannered across the top of one page. Opposite is a full-page portrait of Adlai, chin in hand, looking like...
Best bit: Jerry, always helpful, grabs a fish pole from a lady angler when she gets a bite, yanks on it hard, loses the fish, staggers backward, tangles poles with another angler, staggers backward knocking over anglers, poles, bait buckets, lunch baskets and trash cans, till at last he winds up splat in the middle of the first this-is-me-and-the-big-fish-I-caught snapshot ever taken with the subject's head in the fish's mouth...
...have not heard all of it. Last summer I was addressed "revener." Now there may be some satisfaction in knowing that I have risen in rank above the minister who is merely "reven." But I wonder how much longer till I deserve to be acclaimed the "revenest...
...letter sent last week to three Washington newspapers. "What I saw at the District of Columbia Stadium," he said, "easily could have duplicated what I saw covering the Little Rock school desegregation case, or the bus station mob during the Freedom Rides to Birmingham, or the Emmett Till case in Mississippi. The difference, ironically, was that the predominant number of offenders were Negro. The explosion of hate stemmed mostly from my own people...
...Calais. Sir Isaac's son, Leonard, a 35-year-old G.U.S. executive, is being groomed to succeed him, but father shows little sign of slowing down. "The Gov'nor," as employees call him, still arrives at his red-carpeted office every morning at 7:45, works through till 5 or 6 p.m. His principal worry now is that few other British executives are equally energetic and that British entry into the Common Market could be disastrous unless his countrymen learn to work harder. Said Sir Isaac with mocking irony to a recent conclave of London businessmen: "British companies...