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...left eye. Then, after a frantic new beginning, there were the years when he became one of the most notorious members of the Sinatra Rat Pack, his eyepatch fixed rakishly, like a pirate's, eager to outdrink, outgamble and outperform any other Clansman. Finally there were the unkindest cuts of all-from the Negro press, resentful of Davis' growing reputation for all-night all-white parties. "Howcum we never see Sammy Davis hangin' on the corner up here?" ran the cartoon in a Harlem paper. "You crazy, man? Sammy ain't colored no more...
...Unkindest Cut. The car halted a few blocks from the Kremlin at Kuibyshev Street No. 4, a grey, six-story building with red marble columns and a sign in gold lettering that reads: "The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union." A thermometer mounted above the massive door registered a temperature of 40° F., but it was even chillier inside...
Suslov's knifework lasted some four hours, but the unkindest cut of all was yet to come. Khrushchev's youngest protégé on the Presidium, Dmitry Polyansky, rose to denounce Nikita's agricultural fiascoes with sharply pointed statistics...
There were ten men running, and several of them had seemed to be vying with one another over who could say the unkindest things about President Kennedy. Not so deLesseps Story ("Chep") Morrison, four-term mayor of New Orleans (1946-61), who resigned as Kennedy's Ambassador to the Organization of American States to make this year's gubernatorial race...
...perhaps the unkindest cut of all, Kennedy men have been coming in for intensified attacks in Congress from such liberal Senators as Paul Douglas, Albert Gore and Abraham Ribicoff. The outcry was evident last week in the Senate Finance Committee, where Democratic liberals roundly chewed out Heller when he testified on the tax bill. Gore sarcastically criticized Heller's economics, and Ribicoff snapped: "I think the Administration is painting itself into a pretty tight corner. You are going to have to spend more." Heller got such a rough going-over from the liberals that conservative Harry Byrd hardly...