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...quick-change display of a bewildering variety of emotions, until his face gets stuck behind a mask of inane gaiety. He tugs at the fool thing, but it will not come off, and behind this frozen idiotic grin his body writhes in frustration and anger, his being sheds unseen tears of despair. When the mask is finally wrenched free, Marceau's face is austere and desolate with pain, the soul of man forever entrapped, forever struggling to break out of the prison of his skin...
...obviously petrified him. But as he read his column, which appeared in print only in the Times's overseas and Western editions, he also proved, even more emphatically, that Dave Brinkley will never replace Scotty Reston. Timesman Reston managed to communicate to TV's unseen millions a professional's affectionate regard for his paper-even for its faults. It was an evocative statement on what it means to a newspaper reader to be without his newspaper...
After the war Milner really got rolling. Going into surplus vehicle sales, he scoured Mississippi for veterans' priority certificates, was able to buy up equipment that could be sold at a tidy profit. Next, he set up as a car and truck importer, bought sight unseen a shipload of tractors for $833,000, which he did not have. Before the ship docked, Milner had sold the tractors for $998,000. Eventually, he acquired four Chevrolet agencies and one Pontiac dealership, and became one of G.M.'s biggest-volume dealers...
...pair made their first break last month, spent two weeks in West Berlin's Marienfelde refugee camp pondering the plight of friends they left behind. Finally they slipped back to the canal shore and managed to get across again unseen. Scrambling onto the eastern bank, they cut the heavy apron of wire built by the Communists, made their way to a friend's house, where they soon collected five young men and four young women, including two married couples, and issued instructions for escape. One of the guides warned the tense little group: "Whoever loses his nerve, screams...
Though the red tape is often cumbersome and the sight-unseen aspect of the transaction frequently chancy, many agencies have been developed just to import domestics from abroad. The largest, Manhattan's Domestic Service. Inc., began importing some 1.200 domestics a year in 1950. but in the last few years has become more selective and cut back to about 700 a year. Though the agency could get all the European girls it wanted, it searched out more experienced domestics who would be more likely to stay beyond the usual one-year contract. The family pays the girl...