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...unfairly charged with the sins of the right wing's political cranks, whom he has tried to steer toward moderation and toward a place in the G.O.P. But Goldwater critics could easily make hay of his refusal to reprimand the John Birch Society, even though Barry has publicly tut-tutted the overzealous Red-hunting of his friend Robert Welch, the society's founder. Of the society, Barry says: "I only know one chapter, the one in my home town. They are the finest people in my community...
Freud considered himself unshockable, but a trip to Paris in 1885 made him blush. "I don't think they know the meaning of shame or fear; the women no less than the men crowd round nudities." His fiancee plans a tourist jaunt with a girl friend. Freud tut-tuts: "Should that be allowed? Two single girls traveling alone in North Germany!" At the age of 73, the famed silver-cord cutter is still in an Oedipal tangle with his 94-year-old mother: "I somehow could not forgive myself if I were to die before...
...project dear to the heart (such as it is) of East Germany's Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht. Ulbricht poured an estimated $60 million into a vast complex of plants around Dresden, assigned 20,000 workers to the task. East Germany's Communists tut-tutted at West Germany for buying its airliners abroad, and Neues Deutschland boasted that the BB-152 - a stubby four-engine turbojet designed to travel 500 m.p.h. and land safely on only 3,300 ft. of runway-would put the East Germans "into the forefront of international commercial aviation...
...last week. Adlai replied that 1) he would endorse no one, at least not until after the presidential primaries; 2) he will not withdraw his own name from speculation, but 3) he will make no overt effort to obtain the Democratic nomination. In Cheyenne, Wyo., Democratic Pacemaker John Kennedy tut-tutted such coy stratagems. Said he: "The primaries are going to be decisive next year. Anyone who wants to be a candidate for President ought...
Since the Federal Communications Commission was set up to look after the public interest as affected by the broadcasting business, how could all those rivers of payola flood the land without provoking so much as a "tut, tut" from the commissioners? Scoring the FCC (and the Federal Trade Commission as well), the New York Herald Tribune's Washington Columnist Roscoe Drummond wrote: "They were supposed to be watching, and it wasn't until after they began to be scorched by public opinion that they showed any evidence that they thought they had much to do about...