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Charley is No. 5 in the hierarchy, and there is seemingly nothing to block his ascent-until he falls heel over head in love with a semigorgeous broad named Irene Walker. To the hulking bachelor hoodlum, she is "a classic, like the Truman win over Dewey." Irene is not Sicilian, but a Pole from Los Angeles who is semimarried to a Jew; she is also a freelance assassin who has shot one man for the Prizzis and, on the side, scammed them for $360 ($360? The other 000 is always omitted in family conversation, supposedly "to confuse the tourists"). Novelist...
...Western Europe from conventional Soviet attack by the threat of an all-out strategic response, to leave open the "nuclear option"--and thus to avoid any arms control treaty which would outlaw nuclear war or eliminate nuclear weapons. As early as 1946, an important secret study prepared for Harry Truman concluded that the U.S. "should entertain no proposals for disarmament or limitation of armament as long as the possibility of Soviet aggression exists. Any discussion of the limitation of armaments should be pursued slowly and carefully with the knowledge constantly in mind that proposals on outlawing atomic warfare and long...
Roger Tubby, 71, who was one of Harry Truman's press secretaries, was surprised that such an organization could be formed. "In my time, alas, there were no former press secretaries," he wrote to Speakes. "All three of my predecessors-Steve Early, Charlie Ross and Joe Short-died of heart attacks." They come younger and stronger now, and press secretaries are often stars themselves...
Tubby looked mistily at the fireplace. The day after Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur, Tubby had come into the Oval Office bearing a stack of telegrams from outraged voters. "See that fireplace," Truman snorted. "Throw 'em in there." Tubby smiled approvingly at the memory of having done...
...mention it, but they sense the sudden difference. So, in a less direct way, do the rest of us in the U.S. We also sense the impotence of too much power. The nuclear weapons that were trotted out of the military closet for symbolic effect by Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy are less and less serviceable for the globe's trouble spots. Nuclear weapons can no longer intimidate the Soviets, who have as many of them as we do; in the masses now assembled by both superpowers, those weapons threaten, if unleashed, a hideous end to civilization...