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...present system of allowing the Council to select its own President lends itself least to the evils of electioneering and demagoguery. The Council has an opportunity to scrutinise the records and qualifications of the candidates in an exhaustive (judging, at least, from this year's) session that leaves little unsaid. Before a small body deception or politicking work to a candidate's inevitable disadvantage. Finally, many members of the Council usually are personally acquainted with the candidates abilities and limitations by having worked with those candidates on Council business...
...their consideration of Francis Powers' U-2 trial in Moscow, few U.S. newspaper columnists bothered to meditate about the performance-and its meaning -of the defendant himself. Whatever nagging doubts newsmen had about Powers' actions in the dock were left unsaid as they chose the safer course of excoriating either Russia's shabby propaganda display before the world or its kangaroo justice. But last week, United Feature Syndicate's William S. White, former congressional correspondent for the New York Times and now a columnist appearing in 120 papers, sat down at his typewriter, cleared his throat...
...everything himself, always closes major deals in person. He keeps two airplanes and four pilots busy, works at least ten hours a day, seven days a week, likes straight talk. "If you can't say it outright," he snaps if annoyed, "then it's better unsaid...
Having peeked at an advance copy of Sir John's little speech. Philip mischievously rejoined: "I hope that what the vice chancellor has left unsaid is not an indication of his true feelings...
...sandwich, he recounted how his wife and some 30 other women had fled to a Roman Catholic convent for protection. Soldiers broke in and raped them all, except for three who were spared because of obvious pregnancy. Was his wife among those raped? "Some things are better left unsaid," Saintraint said grimly...