Word: undid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MOONSCAPE (Putnam; $3.50)."With clumsy fingers I undid two buttons of her frock, slipped my hand beneath it and ..." And Mika Waltari, whose bestsellers (The Egyptian, The Adventurer, The Wanderer) would be considerably shorter if his heroines knew about zippers, is off meandering again, this time in his native Finland. This volume consists of five not-very-short stories. The title yarn tells what happens to the unbuttoned country girl: she grows up to be a movie star with a boudoir-view of life ("There are no impotent men, only unskilled women, don't you think?"). Another story...
...give Government executives a freer hand in hiring and firing top assistants, and these essentially political employees did not possess the job security enjoyed by regular civil servants. In 1947, Harry Truman signed an order giving most of them the equivalent of civil-service protection. In April, Eisenhower partially undid Truman's work by ordering that top bureaucratic policymakers (about 800) be stripped of their job security. Last month, in a further return to the status quo ante Truman, Ike decreed that all nonveterans who held full-time Schedule A jobs (nearly 54,000) should thenceforth be subject...
Even the slip that undid him had a familiar ring: the examiners found a notation of cash supposedly on hand: $719,000. They counted the money and found only $119,000. But they could not discover why Schlekat had stolen $600,000. There was no woman in the case, no racetrack gambling, no wild parties. Then the bank's former president, Charles C. Alter, described his own retirement to the examiners. A New Kensington real-estate man (now dead) had approached him four years ago on behalf of two "Ohio businessmen," H. A. McDevitt and J. H. McKeown...
MacArthur added that, in his opinion, "the greatest political mistake we made in a hundred years in the Pacific was in allowing the Communists to grow in power in China. I think, at one stroke, we undid everything, starting from John Hay, through Taft, Leonard Wood, Woodrow Wilson, Henry Stimson, and all those great architects of our Pacific policy. I believe it was fundamental, and I believe we will pay for it, for a century...